Why did it take an hour for decrepit fire engines to reach the blazing supermarket?

为什么超市着火后，老朽的消防车花费了一个小时才到达事故现场？

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The youthful dynamism of America, and now of China and India, seems to be leaving the decrepit old continent in the shade.

美国的青春活力，如今则是中国和印度的活力，似乎正使得衰落的旧大陆大为逊色。

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There the small cost of 200 billion dollars a year to keep the elderly going in a frail and decrepit state that for most increases their lifespan for a year or two.

一年用两千亿美元极小成本去维持虚弱和苟延残喘状态的老龄化，最多能使他们的寿命增加1-2年。

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That will be vital to reviving the decrepit economy, in particular its garment-making.

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The reality is that Saddam would have had to have been removed at some point, and the decrepit state he held together by terror was bound to blow apart.

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He liked to talk about the number of hospitals that had reopened since the war and the pay raises that had been given to doctors instead of the still-decrepit conditions inside the hospitals or the fact that many physicians were leaving for safer, better paying jobs outside Iraq.

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