Carbon dust and oil build up in large motors and cause them to short-circuit.

碳尘和燃油在大发动机里越积越多，造成了发动机短路。

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The fire was started by an electrical short-circuit.

火灾是由电线短路引发的。

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The approach was intended to short-circuit normal complaints procedures.

这种方法旨在简化通常的投诉程序。

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It must struggle against events which would help to achieve its goal too rapidly--by a kind of short-circuit.

它会在危险中挣扎,因为危险会太早把它带到终点。

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Unable to speak out openly about a host of injustices across his kingdom, the King could do little more than teach by example, traveling to the remotest regions to support rural development--and short-circuit the appeal of communism to the poor.

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Knight Capital general counsel Leonard Amoruso asks how the individual stock circuit breakers will interact with market-wide circuit breakers, a newly adopted up-tick rule for short sellers and internal circuit breakers imposed by NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq.

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Yet the biggest risk to Democrats from a Hillary Clinton nomination is not that it would be generationally backward-looking -- or that it would reopen embarrassing ethical disputes -- but that it would short-circuit the necessary work of party renewal.

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