It was the end of an hour-long battle and as the sun sank deep into the horizon, the shooting became more intermittent.
战斗持续了一个多小时，直到太阳沉入地平线，枪声才渐渐停歇。
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Two years on, Simon Tilford, the author of the report, reckons that with deep recession and ballooning budget deficits on the horizon, muddling through is no longer an option.
He tried to remember exactly what he had seen in the dream, but all that came back was a mountainous horizon and the outline of the little village cradled in a deep valley.