FOR 40-odd years now, as Barack Obama lamented on March 30th, American politicians have banged on endlessly about the evils of America's dependence on imported oil, without doing very much about it.

正如巴拉克·奥巴马在3月30日所感叹的那样，迄今40多年以来，美国政界就美利坚合众国对进口石油高依赖的危害性说了很多，但是做得却很少。

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Suppose there's somebody alive forty odd years form now in the year 2050.

假定有个人生活在，四十多年后，也就是2050年。

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The map is an old map of the Kingdom of Fife (where we now live) that my husband has had for 15 or odd years, so amazing that we are now there!)

这是法夫郡的地图（我们现在住的地方就是法夫郡），我丈夫大概十五年前就有这张地图了，我们现在居然住在这里，真是不可思议。

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Suppose there's somebody alive forty odd years form now in the year 2050.

假定有个人生活在,四十多年后，也就是2050年。

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That surely makes it odd to fix its budget now for so many years ahead.

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It occurs to me that forty-odd years ago I was pushing Olivier around a toy theatre on a wire, and now I have his job.

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Even so, seven years after the crisis, and with growth in the emerging East Asian countries now strong, it seems odd that investment is still so weak.

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