可是现在看来呢，事情很可能像1980年代那样，拖的越久，纳税人越得为其花更多的钱。

Still, it seems more likely that — again, just as in the 1980s — the longer we delay, the higher the eventual taxpayer cost will be.

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直到20世纪70年代，埃及农民还得花半天时间干挑水灌溉这些繁重的劳动。 如今，农民灌溉用柴油泵，犁地用拖拉机，小麦脱粒用机器。

Farmers who until the 1970s spent half their working day on the back-breaking labour of lifting irrigation water now use diesel pumps, plough with tractors and thresh their wheat by machine.

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我还是个孩子的时候母亲就在照料一个80年代的老式玫瑰园——长长的一畦种的全是大花玫瑰。

My mother tended a classic 1980s rose garden when I was a child - a long border of nothing but Hybrid Teas.

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