It is indeed a principle, and in engineering it is deliberately used to allow complex systems to preserve their integrity in the face of faulty components.

这确实是条原理，在工程学里专门用来让复杂系统在面临错误组件时还能运作正常。

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Xerox set about a process of reverse engineering. It pulled the machines apart and investigated the Japanese factories to find out how they could pull off such feats.

施乐公司展开了一项逆向工程。他们把日本的机器拆开，调查了日本的工厂来弄清楚他们怎么生产出了如此了不起的产品。

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This is not about social engineering. It is about not wasting potential.

这不是社会工程方面的事，而是事关不能浪费人的潜能。

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It offers programs that help young people learn more about science,technology, engineering and mathematics, while building life skills.

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I figured Chemical Engineering would be the best way to get into it because it's a really broad major.

我发现化学工程应该是接触新能源的最好方式，因为这个专业覆盖面也很广。

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What makes it unique so that we have a school of engineering at Yale that's separate from science and the humanities?

是什么使得工程学如此独特,以至于耶鲁开设工程学院,并与与科学和人文学院相区别

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Today the company is dismantling the program and re-engineering it in a more agile way.

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The company said it would be the biggest subsea engineering project it had undertaken in the UK, and the first ever with so many seabed crossings.

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"There's a lot of engineering and it is not clear that it's the best use of engineering resources at this moment, " he explained.

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