State and defend your opinion, analyze the issues, speculate about how things might have turned out differently.

陈述并捍卫你的观点，分析问题，思考事情可能会有怎样的不同结果。

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The underlying question, though, is a good one: Peering back over the past two years, there were a few pivot points where things might have turned out very differently.

潜在的问题是，回头看这两年，有一些关键问题（pivot points）上，有些事情可能已经证明是非常困难的。

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If I'd kept her with me a few minutes longer, would things have turned out differently?

如果我多留她在我身边几分钟，事情会不会就不一样了呢？

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They still come across as obsessed with Facebook and what might have been if things turned out differently.

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Things might have turned out differently for Bristol had UFT, which is approved in Europe and Japan, also been approved in the United States.

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Things have turned out slightly differently.

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