Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated,can long endure.

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Before long the speaker realizes that this fantasy is starting to sound a little extreme or maybe a little dangerous.

不久之后诗歌发言者意识到,这个幻景,开始听起来有点过头或危险了。

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or if it's over a long period of time and it's an ongoing situation that you want to get rid of.

或者是一件持续了很久的事，你特别想摆脱它。

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The betting in Prague is that these are the companies that Mr Gregr now wants to throw more money at, along with another 30 or so that long ago ceased paying their debts.

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Even worse, too often, when we've attempted to update or replace outdated technology, we end up spending exorbitant sums of money on technologies that don't meet our needs -- or that took so long to implement that they were obsolete before we even started using them.

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Pick up that paintbrush or guitar that has laid long-neglected.

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