For instance, is there a legacy Payroll application implemented using proprietary technologies and protocols that prevent your other more modern applications from making use of it?

举例来说，有一个使用专有技术和协议来实现的遗留工资单应用程序，且其他的新应用程序不能使用它。

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The island of Penang, for instance, has wide roads, a steady stream of university science graduates, an efficient power supply and a modern airport from which goods are flown around the world.

拿槟榔屿举例，这里有宽阔的公路，稳定的大学科学毕业生作为劳动力，以及高效的电力供应和一个能使商品能运往世界各地的现代机场。

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It's not merely a negative thing the way I think modern ideas about law, as for instance, represented in the American Constitution are, which is to say, its function is to prevent wrong doing, to punish wrong doing.

我的理解是,这里的法律,不仅仅指当今的法律条款,比如美国宪法所代表的那些内容,也就是,行使防范错误行为,以及惩罚错误行为的职能

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In a country with no tradition of modern democracy, where, for instance, about 75% of females (and 90% in the south) are illiterate, there needs to be plenty of time to explain how people could choose their candidates for no fewer than 12 layers of government.

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Like "Argo" or "Zero Dark Thirty, " the film dramatizes a fertile subject in this instance, the language of advertising in modern politics.

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It may be the only instance in modern life where our thinking is so uniformly medieval (I say this in a nice way).

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