Although Emily and Martie say a new Dixie Chicks album will come in the not-too-distant future, they will also put out another Court Yard Hounds collection.

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When I thought about what I wanted in survival, it wasn't enough that there be somebody in the distant future that be me.

当我思考生存的意义时，仅仅是未来某一时刻,有一个我是不足够的。

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Maybe someday the British--United Kingdom-- something will happen to it, it will fall apart or change, but that is so distant in the future that we can disregard that, so we'll take that as forever.

或许有人会说英国,大英帝国,总会有突发事件发生,政权会发生改变,但至少现阶段不会改变,我们可以忽视它,因此我们就认为它是永久存在的了

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So it's some way of interfacing activity in your brain with the outside world, and we'll talk about this as we go along, but there's lots of reasons to think that we're going to have this in the not too distant future.

它是一种将大脑,和外部世界连接起来的办法,当我们遇到这个问题的时候再细讲,但我们非常有理由相信,不远的将来我们就能应用这些技术

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