Many products are made by machinery rather than by hand.

许多产品是机器造的而不是手工做的。

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Rather than checking out the code by hand, a new server bootstraps the Capistrano process.

新的服务器可以引导 Capistrano 过程启动，而不需要手动检出代码。

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But it seemed as if the number of troops was determined by opinion polls, rather than the mission in hand.

但是增兵的数量似乎不是根据手中的实际任务需求而是由民意调查所决定的。

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Diageo found creative ways to trim the price, by using local barley and sorghum, by putting the beer in big kegs rather than costly bottles and by inventing a cheap hand-pump to serve it.

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However, rather than have part of the proof done by hand, and part by computer, he has automated the entire proof, and done so in such a manner that it is a formal proof.

ECONOMIST: Just what does it mean to prove something?

Even if he wishes the 42-year-old Gamal to succeed him in office, as many Egyptians suspect, it would be a gift both to his successor and to his people for this power to be conferred by popular legitimacy rather than sleight-of-hand.

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