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He leant his forehead on his hand, and people, looking in through the open door, — for this scene is supposed to take place on a summer's evening — But how dull this is, this historical fiction!

他把前额倚在自己的手上，于是人们站在敞开的大门外面向里张望——我们假设这个景象发生在夏天的傍晚——可是，所有这一切历史的虚构是多么沉闷啊！

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By contrast, wise bosses know that progress is rarely achieved through noisy triumphs, like imagined events in fiction, but through unflashy, incremental steps that take time and a team effort.

相反，明智的老板知道，进步很少通过喧嚣的胜利（就像小说中想象的事件）取得，而是由不起眼的一个个小进步汇聚而成，需要时间和团队的努力。

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"I was appalled. When you read through it it's sort of like it's a memo out of some science fiction movie - I mean, the temperature of the air can't be any lower than thus and so, you can't do it for any few minutes.

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Even if a nuclear explosion took place and everything on earth got atomized and destroyed, through some bizzare science fiction chain reaction. They always do in the movies.

即使发生核爆炸,像某些离奇科幻小说里描述的，的连锁反应那样，一切都毁灭了,电影里经常可以看到的场面。

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In the meantime, through fiction we can observe the inevitable denouement.

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