His office quickly tried to backtrack, but Nancy Pelosi, his counterpart in the House, did not help by saying: "I don't think anybody has a clock ticking."

但很快，他的办公室想(澄清并)收回这些言论，但是他的众议院对手Nancy Pelosi却说：“我不认为哪个人身上装着计时器。”

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Do not ask whether we should backtrack, ask how we can blaze a new trail.

不要问我们是否会走回头路，问问我们如何开辟新的道路。

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Later, Mr Fujii appeared to backtrack, insisting that he hoped for "foreign exchange stability" and that he had never said he would not act in the face of a rising yen.

随后，藤井裕久似乎有些退缩，坚称自己希望“汇率稳定”，且从未说过不会对日元不断走强采取措施。

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They have been forced to backtrack on recent publications relying on novel, dubious, statistical methodologies not in accordance with established methodologies of complex statistical analysis.

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