You could have simply numbered the registers, but then writing the code and remembering which register does what would get even more tedious than before.

您可能已经简单地对寄存器进行了编号，不过之后编写代码并记住哪个寄存器实现哪些功能会比以前更加乏味。

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The firm has been wooing new customers at a terrific pace, but even before the scandal broke its shares had fallen by more than half from the bubbly days of 2007.

这个企业已经在以一个极致的步速来争取新客户，而即便在这次丑闻出现之前，它的股票已经从2007年的牛市下跌了超过一半。

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Since the raid, relations have darkened. But even before it, far more Pakistanis saw America as an enemy than as a partner.

两国关系由于突袭而变得冷却，但其实在这之前将美国视为敌人的巴基斯坦人就远远多过视其为伙伴者。

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More money than ever before was coming in, but even more was flowing out.

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But bond investors bought with even more lusty recklessness than before.

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Over 6, 000 workers will come with them, meaning Bonn will have around 18, 000 federal employees after the move some 6, 000 fewer than before, but nearly 5, 000 more than Berlin will have, even when all its nine ministries are up and running.

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