They were so fast and so eager to get away from all of us crazy tourists with their long shiny lenses that I figured it was a lost cause.

它们爬得是那么快，是那么不情愿靠近我们这些拿着闪亮长镜头的着迷游客。

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There is nothing we can do about it. It's a lost cause.

我们已经无能为力了，它是注定要失败的。

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Conventional multi-directional interpolation method sometimes may cause some inaccurate edges when using it to restore lost blocks in a picture, because of unrelated edge in correctly received blocks.

传统的多方向插值方法对图像丢失块进行恢复时，在某些情况下由于受周围正确接收块内无关边界的影响而导致出现错误边界。

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Her answer was this and it's got something to do with how a lost cause took hold too but she said, "Southerners love a good tale.

她是这么回答的,同时也解释了为何南方人始终无法释怀,她说,"南方人钟爱精彩的故事

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"Nothing in Iraq seemed to be going well, and there was this need to find somebody who could demonstrate that it was not a completely lost cause, " says Bacevich.

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It seems like dignity while traveling is a lost cause.

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However, the commentator says that this time, his party, the Il Popolo della Liberta (PdL) or The People of Freedom, will be less likely to spring to his defence, as it is now beginning to see Mr Berlusconi's war against the judiciary as a lost cause.

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