Yet we kept coming back to the same question: Will there ever be a better time?

但我们一再回到一个老问题上来：真的会有更好的时机吗？

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Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit" - yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.

现在，你们会说：“吓，你们有话说，今天明天我们要往某城里去，在那里住一年，作买卖得利。”但是你们却不知道明天会发生什么。

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"There will be a knock-on effect for car production in the UK, but we don't yet know what it is," he said.

他说，“这对我们在英国的汽车生产会形成连锁反应，但是目前为止我们还不知道是什么样的”。

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And in fact, if we just go ahead and run this now, hopefully we get out-- oops, sorry, I'm going to have to change this quickly, I still have some things uncommented at the bottom, yeah, there they are, I don't think we need that yet, all right, we will comment those out.

如果我们现在去运行程序的话，希望我们会得到-噢，抱歉，我得去马上，改下代码，还有一些在底部的东西没被注释掉,对，就在这儿了，我不认为我们需要，这些东西了，好，我们把它们注释掉,好，那么我为什么要讲这些呢？

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