What if the system fails after the first one is written, but before the second?

如果在已写入第一个磁盘块之后，在写入第二个磁盘块之前，系统发生故障，又会发生什么情况呢？

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This allows time for the first eye to heal before the second eye surgery takes place.

这样一来，在动第二台手术之前，已动过手术的眼球可以有足够的时间来愈合。

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Before the second lesson begins, one has not only the knowledge of the first lesson.

那么第二节课时，在上课前所输入的将不仅是第一节课的知识。

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the doctor said, "you should draw up a few general rules as guidance before you pass a second time through the dangers of youth.

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That's just the simple sequential sense of "first," the first that comes before second, third and fourth; but there's something more radical here than the ordinal or sequential sense of "first."

这只是“先“表示顺序的简单含义,先于第二，第三，第四的那个“先“，但这里,“先“除了表示顺序的意思外还有更激进的含义“

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This second chimpanzee is not a relative of the first chimpanzee and they've never seen each other before.

这只黑猩猩跟第一只黑猩猩,没有血缘关系,它们以前也从来没见过面。

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