Horizontal scalability, on the other hand doesn't require you to buy more and more expensive servers. Its meant to be scaled using commodity storage and server solutions.

另一方面，横向扩展并不要求你购买更多昂贵的服务器，这意味着应用普通的存储和服务器作为解决方案。

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Indeed, the dome was designed by its maker to be placeless, meant to be plunked down anywhere from the Arctic to the tropics as an assertion of the global industrial dominance.

事实上，穹顶建筑是被设计为无所凭依的，这意味着，作为一种工业统驭全球的象征，它是可以被栽到任何地方的，无论是北极还是赤道之上。

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Its purpose is to make the content stand out and be the focal point. From a visual standpoint, minimalist design is meant to be calming and to bring the mind down to the basics.

其目的是使主要内容浮出并成为聚焦点，从视觉角度出发，极简设计意味着要沉静并将最基本的元素作为中心思想。

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