First, the ongoing drought is the worst in a half century, maybe longer.

首先，当下持续不断的干旱是半个世纪以来最为严重的一次，大有愈演愈久的趋势。

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But what about the nine months or so (and maybe longer) until that certainty and outperformance arrive?

但是，这个必然、这个跑赢到来之前的九个多月(或者更久)里会怎样呢？

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"Four or five hours, maybe longer," he says.

“四五个小时，可能会更长一些，”他说。

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"So you have to surveil them a long time until you can say 'okay,maybe he's kind of a suspicious person, so maybe we should investigate it a longer time or not.'

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Then once you've got those two numbers, they're no longer free parameters; they're concrete numbers, maybe 5 and 9.

一旦你知道这两个量,它们就不再是自由参量了,它们是具体的数值,可能是5或9

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Maybe I can help you find the answer if we talk about it a little bit longer.

要是我们多讨论一会儿的话，也许我能帮你找到答案。

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