When OS X rolled around, Apple seemed to have realized that in order for its future platform to thrive, it couldn't afford to have the means for creating great software controlled by someone else.

当OS X日益兴起，苹果公司似乎意识到，为了未来操作平台的兴盛，它负担不起发开软件主动权被他人控制的代价。

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For the students in our school, access to the school library means they have the chance to borrow books from the library.

对于我们学校的学生来说，进入学校图书馆意味着他们有机会从图书馆借书。

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For managers, this means that employees must have the capability of doing the job and must regard the appraisal process as valid.

"对管理者来说，这意味着，员工必须要有完成工作的能力，而且必须要认为这种评价过程是有根据的。

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"We never will move out of the crisis if we do not re-establish confidence, which means we have to establish signposts for the future."

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This means the Israelites will have to wander for 40 years in the desert until all of those who left Egypt as adults pass away, leaving a new generation that hasn't really tasted slavery, to enter the land and form a new nation.

这意味着，犹太人必须在沙漠中流浪40年,直到所有一起出埃及的人过世，留下没有做过奴隶的，新一代人，进入应许之地，建立一个新的国家。

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So in other words, every time I merge the point that I kept emphasizing verbally there and that I'm only touching each number once, means that we have to account for the amount of time it takes to merge N which is going to be just N. Now, this is again one of these cyclical answers.

换言之，之前在做合并时,我不停地强调,对每个数字我只碰了一次，这就是说,我们要记录合并所花的时间量,也就是这里的,这又是一种循环性的答案。

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Mr Owusu Ansah said that the dead man's family did not have the means to pay for the body to be sent back to Africa.

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The Cobra-linked subsidy also is proving elusive for people who are eligible but don't have the means to pay for it.

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Like so many families of Sichuan orphans, they refuse to put them up for adoption but do not have the means to care for them, either.

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