For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.

有一段时间，由美国创造的、处于新计算机时代核心的半导体制造业似乎将成为下一个受害者。

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If he had only managed to kill the snake, it would have been worth it, all of it. . . . Sick at heart, he sat up and threw back the covers.

他要是能杀死那条蛇，也算是值了，一切没有白费……他心中十分沮丧，坐起来掀开了毯子。

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I was looking at the vast vast vast Xinghai, facing a sky full of silver, quietly sat there in a heart full of Star.

我对着广阔无垠的浩瀚星海，对着满天的银光，静静地坐着，心里就有了一片完整的星空。

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