Functional language constructs such as higher-order and first-class functions allow me to climb one more rung up the abstraction ladder and focus more on what the code does rather than how it does it.

函数语言结构，如高阶和一级函数，能让我对抽象的理解更进一步，让我更多地将精力放在代码能做什么 而不是怎么做 上。

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Policies such as flexible and part-time working can be crucial to women in moving up the corporate ladder.

比如，对女性在职场升迁而言，弹性工作制和兼职工作制等政策可谓至关重要。

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Algorithm flowchart of PLC programming and the ladder diagram of some crucial steps are given, such as quantizing program of the input signal and the inquiry program of fuzzy control table.

给出了PLC程序设计的算法流程图及输入量量化程序、模糊控制表查询程序等关键步骤的梯形图。

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Is it really any surprise that every year the lost and found warehouses thousands of items, including hundreds of wallets, passports, eyeglasses and cellphones, along with more bizarre misplaced objects such as dive goggles, ski boots, a Superman costume, a ladder, and even a dog?

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The government's capitulation has implications for other large-scale infrastructure plans, such as the Plan Puebla-Panama in the south, and the Escalera Nautica (nautical ladder), a tourist scheme in Baja California.

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Other fancy lending schemes, such as sub-prime and interest-only mortgages, have been introduced to encourage poorer Americans onto the housing ladder.

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