There are three paces of time: the future is like an arrow flies be long in coming, now, the past is always at a standstill. - Schiller.

时间的步伐有三种：未来姗姗来迟，现在像箭一样飞逝，过去永远静立不动。--席勒。

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The next thing we might want to ask about a plant like that is what chances does it have to survive into the future.

我们对那类植物可能提出的下一个问题是，它存活到未来的机率有多大。

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If mobile computing is the future, as everyone says, then the technology of Siri or something like it is going to be crucial.

假如像人们说的那样，未来是移动计算的天下，那 Siri 这样的技术就是至关重要的。

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"The future of Haiti is important. I would like that they help to rebuild the country.

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But, in February of 1871 there are elections and the provinces, particularly the conservative, western provinces like Brittany return this extremely monarchist dominated National Assembly that is going to determine the future of France.

在一八七一年二月,举行了一系列选举,并且那些守旧城市,像西部城市布列塔尼,那里的国民大会,又重新被极端君主专制主义者们掌握,而这将决定法国的未来

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"Pushing costly, unpleasant tasks into the future is like a getting a 50 percent discount on them, psychologically, " Laibson said.

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What could happen in the future is markets like Brazil and China agree to price iron ore in yuan, or even Brazilian reals.

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"The future is big locations like these, " Marks says.

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