大多数地方的真正含义是我们要选出人管理我们，偶尔更新或撤销他们的契约。
What was really meant in most places was that we would elect people to govern us and sporadically renew or revoke their contracts.
需要显式常量或是“魔力值”的很多API都是API契约的一部分，这些常量或数值并不只是随意添加到代码中的（这里的意思指的是很多API中都拥有一些常量或是数值，他们是API契约所要求的，因此根据反编译后的结果很难推测出这些常量或数值所代表的含义——译者注）。
Many APIs that expect explicit constants or 'magic values' are part of an API contract and not merely some value added in to the code.
本文作者利用大量的合同用词例子重点论述了英语经贸契约中常见的介词和介词短语的含义、用法和习惯用法及其翻译方法和技巧。
By using numerous examples from contracts, the writer mainly discusses meanings, usages and translations of the frequently used prepositions and prepositional phrases in business contracts in English.
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