The cattle are very thirsty at this point, the rains have not come yet, they need to get to the water points, and water points are dried up all along those regular migration routes, and that has been one of the causes of the friction."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

To get down to it, you have to cut away what is not true, what is inflated, beside the point, excess, ornament.

更直接点，你们要去掉不真实的，除了这点还有膨胀的，过量的和装饰的。

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But part of the process of being systematic is not assuming that I'm going to get a lucky guess. But not even thinking really hard at this point. But just pruning the search space.

但是系统化的过程是不允许,假设我做出了,一个幸运的猜测的,而是逐步缩小搜索空间。

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