这就是为什么，我们在阿富汗的军事行动不能是开放式的——因为我最想建造的，是我们自己的国家。

That is why our troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended - because the nation that I am most interested in building is our own.

youdao

救援行动如果今天不能成功，登山队员必死无疑。

The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful.

《牛津词典》

我们必须迅速采取行动，时间一刻也不能浪费。

We have to act quickly—there is not a moment to waste.

youdao

These women are not free to move around, particularly those who are required by their religious community to remain in their homes and only go outside perhaps with their chaperon.

这些女性不能自由行动，特别是,那些受到宗教团体要求的女性,必须待在家中，最多只能,在监护人的陪同下外出。

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Now if he was too stupid to have it, then of course he would have been liberated into the realm of action.

如果他因为太愚昧而不能有这种幻想，那么当然他能自由行动。

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I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

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