Then there's always the stress that somebody who joins a parallel line next to you can get their burgers and fries before you, and that adds to the stress of the day.

更让人上火的是，在你旁边那一队里，那个家伙比你来的晚，居然得意洋洋地在你之前，拿到了汉堡和薯条，生气又增加了你一天的压力。

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This kind of parallel decomposition is often called fork-join because executing a task forks (starts) multiple subtasks and then joins (waits for completion) with them.

这种并行分解方法常常称作 fork-join，因为执行一个任务将首先分解（fork）为多个子任务，然后再合并（join）（完成后）。

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