Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.

爱丽丝打开了门，发现门外是一条小走廊，比老鼠洞还小。她跪下来，顺着走廊往外望去，看见一个你从来未曾见过的美丽的花园。

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Unfortunately, I view SOA Standards as a “rat hole”.

不幸的是，我认为SOA标准是“老鼠洞”。

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More importantly, how can you accurately assess you are iterating down the right path for your product and company success, and not simply digging further in a rat hole ?

更重要的是，我们如何准确地评估我们是否位于一条通向成功产品和公司的康庄大道上呢，还是我们仅仅是在挖开另一个无底洞？

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While it's heartening to see taxpayer-funded grants shot down a rat hole of sententious research that overly complicates simple, self-evident truths, what's gone ignored is a simple fact known for eons to anyone who's studied the mimicry abilities of primates and infants.

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Before leaving Adirondack, Spirit took images and collected miniature thermal emission spectrometer (Mini-Tes) data from the hole it ground with its rock abrasion tool (Rat).

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