As the semesters flew by, I dedicated increasingly more time to the latter set than to the former. Long story short: I was quickly becoming a Frankenstein's monster of extracurricular knowledge.

随着学期的过去，我越来越多地花费时间在后者而不是前者上，长话短说：我很快变成了一个弗兰肯斯坦似的怪物，努力汲取正规课堂外的知识。

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In general, prototyping requires a flexible, dynamic tool set that supports the creation of representative functionality in a short amount of time at a very small cost.

通常，原型设计需要一个灵活的、动态的工具集，而该工具集能够在很短时间内、以很低的费用来创建典型的功能。

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In a short amount of time you have set up a skeleton application that implements authorization.

在很短的时间里，您就已经建立了一个能实现授权的骨架应用程序。

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