"The premise of a lie detector is that a smoke alarm goes off in the brain when we lie because we're doing something wrong," explains Saxe.

萨克斯解释说。“测谎机的前提是，当我们说谎时，因为我们正在做错事，大脑中的报警器响了。”

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So do a lot of fathers, despite the basic premise of the book—that most women who set off on a footing of equality with their partners are betrayed by them when babies arrive.

但本书的编写有个基本前提，就是大部分女性虽然与她们的伴侣之间关系平等和谐，但一旦有了孩子，女性常常得不到平等的对待，她们比男方要承担更多的抚养孩子的义务，成为了事实上家庭里的“苦力”。

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Extension points for self-defined off-premise development tools, which are out of framework built-in capabilities, but are required for individual solution developments.

自定义备用开发工具的扩展点，它不在框架内置功能之中，但是为个体解决方案开发所需。

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Private cloud solutions whether on premise in your own datacenter or off premise (hosted by a partner) hold the promise of delivering even greater opportunities for efficiency with improved IT automation, elasticity of resources, and deeper capabilities for tracking usage.

FORBES: MicrosoftVoice: Evolution of Enterprise IT and Virtualization Infrastructures to Private Cloud

Off-premise private clouds, such as hosted private clouds and virtual private clouds, are gaining a substantial following.

FORBES: The Cloud Hits the Mainstream: More than Half of U.S. Businesses Now Use Cloud Computing

And the actual hurricane certainly pays off the premise (sorry, that sounds like a movie critic's take and I'm not one).

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