To others, it's a fleeting thought.

给他人，这是一个稍纵即逝的思考。

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A fleeting thought went through her mind.

她脑海掠过一个稍纵即逝的念头。

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But it was a fleeting thought, almost drowned in the blood that flows in the Accident and Emergency Department of the Kinshasa General Hospital.

但这个念头转瞬而逝，几乎是被金沙萨综合医院急诊室里流淌着的血给淹没的。

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An old but creaking system of consensus, the lingering loyalty of bosses and employees to an unaffordable social-welfare model, and a web of constitutional checks and balances designed to prevent even the most fleeting thought of another tyranny, have all made it extraordinarily hard to carry out reform in Germany.

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