But things are different now, the base areas have shrunk and may continue to shrink for a period, and undoubtedly we cannot maintain the same enormous war apparatus as before.

• 但是现在不同了，根据地已经缩小，在今后的一个时期内还可能再缩小，我们便决然不能还像过去那样地维持着庞大的机构。