That is what makes metal so fascinating because metallic bonding allows the atoms to glide over one another without resulting in catastrophic failure.

那就使得金属具有了特别的性质，因为金属键使得原子可以在彼此之间流动，而不会带来灾难性的后果。

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Problems such as corrupt data on the disk, power failures, and system crashes can all cause catastrophic failure of the resizing process.

磁盘上的不可靠数据、电源故障、以及系统崩溃的等问题可能会导致调整过程发生灾难性故障。

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By duplicating the workload of the database to a separate site, these features protect users from production downtime in the event of a local hardware failure or a catastrophic site failure.

通过将数据库的工作负载复制到单独的站点上，这些特性使服务在发生本地硬件故障或灾难性站点故障时不会中断。

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"Its failure could have resulted in a 1930s-style global financial and economic meltdown, with catastrophic implications for production, income and jobs,".

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Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.

因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。

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That is what makes metal so fascinating, because metallic bonding allows the atoms to glide over one another without resulting in catastrophic failure.

所以这就使得金属具有了特别的性质，因为金属键使得原子可以,在彼此之间流动,而不会千万灾难性的后果。

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The consequences of failure are catastrophic.

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Yet the record will prove that active management is a catastrophic failure to achieve that goal.

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In contrast, focus on success often encourages complacency which leads to profound and catastrophic failure.

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