He waved his burning stick at them, but they did not move away.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Internet industry was in a very difficult time at that time, at that period, and we gradually realized that this company cannot really survive if we stick with the backend technology providers thing.

当时互联网行业正处于困境，如果坚持做后台搜索技术提供商,这个公司将无法生存。

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You continue to stick around, ... and then your life has this feeling of-- ... at least we can imagine this happening-- being sort of anticlimactic.

你还继续活在世上，但是你的生活则变得有点-,至少我们可以想象会有这样的事-,你的生活变得有点虎头蛇尾。

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A lot of us might feel that a life like this, where we peak but then we stick around-- ... you know, isn't-- can at least fail to be as desirable in which we end with a bang.

很多人可能觉得生命是这样的，我们先到达巅峰然后下跌-,不是-,它无法令人满意地,让我们突然死去。

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