Patents were filed more for strategic purposes, to be used as bargaining chips to ward off infringement suites or as a means to block competitors' products.
专利申请更多的是出于战略目的，被用作抵御侵权案件的讨价还价筹码，或者作为阻止竞争对手产品发展的手段。
This is an arbitrary block of XML, which means it can be formatted to match any XML schema.
这是一个任意的xml块，这意味着可以对它进行格式化来匹配任何XML模式。
Each building block is a service, which means you can access each one in a standard way without regard to its implementation or location.
每个构件都是一个服务，这意味着您可通过标准方法来访问服务而不必关注其具体实现及其位置。
Allocating space by block means metadata updates per block.
按块分配磁盘空间就意味着要逐块更新元数据。
This means we need to add a call to its "Dispose" method and that we lose the safety of having this called in a finally block.
这也意味着，我们需要添加对“Dispose”方法的调用，这样，我们会就丧失在最后代码块(Finally Block)中调用“Dispose”方法的安全措施。
An exception thrown from a finally block supersedes the exception that caused the block to exit, which means the original exception is lost and cannot be used to aid in the debugging effort.
从finally块抛出的异常取代导致块退出的异常，这意味着原来的异常丢失了，不能用于帮助进行调试。
That means that companies who block access to social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook are actually inadvertently decreasing employee productivity.
这意味着，公司如果封禁MySpace和Facebook这样的社交网络，会在不经意间降低员工的生产力。
A discard request is part of the block layer and provides the means to discard blocks, eventually resulting in a trim command to a supporting ATA drive.
一个丢弃请求是此块层的一部分，提供了丢弃块的途径，并最终会导致向提供支持的ATA设备发出一个trim命令。
By default a dataflow is tuned for performance over fairness. Implementation wise, this means that once a block is activated it will continue to process data until it runs out.
默认情况下，数据流已经针对性能进行了调解，实现方式也很棒，这意味着一旦激活了某个块，那么它就会继续处理数据直到运行完毕。
A stored procedure provides a natural means to bundle statements into a block.
存储过程为将语句绑定到块中提供了一种自然的方式。
Outside of compression, supporting variable block sizes also means that you can tune the block size for the particular workload expected for improved performance.
在压缩以外，支持可变块大小还意味着您可以针对所期望的特定工作量优化块大小，以便改进性能。
This means that block device drivers need to be redesigned from 2.4.
这意味着原来用于2.4的块设备需要进行重新设计。
MDC block indexes means that fewer RID indexes are required.
MD c块索引意味着需要的RID索引更少。
The rows representing account A and account B are not likely to be stored in the same disk block, which means that more than one disk IO will be required to complete the transfer.
表示账户A和账户B的行可能不会存储在同一个磁盘块中，这意味着要完成转账需要进行多个磁盘IO。
This means that once a Snapshot has been made, you can mount and read and write to it like a regular block device.
这意味着，在创建快照之后，可以像常规块设备一样挂载和读写快照。
Mister Lee is really sitting pretty now - the other dry cleaner down the block sold out to an Oriental grocery store, which means he now has no competition for two miles around.
这条街那边的干洗商店已经卖给一家东方杂货店。这就是说，现在李先生的商店在两英里的范围内没有竞争对手。
Water was thought to carry disease into the skin; pores nicely clogged with dirt were a means to block it out.
水被认为会携带疾病侵入皮肤；毛孔让污垢好好的堵住被认为可以将疾病拒之门外。
In terms of skin care products, it means that it will not block your pores.
从护肤角度来看，意味着不会堵塞你的毛孔。
Install hardwood floors, such as strip floors, block floors or plank floors, using glue, staples, nails or other means.
使用胶水，钉书钉，铁钉或其他手段，安装硬木地板，如条形地板，块地板或木板地板。
They’re endocrine disrupters, which means they block or mimic hormones, affecting the body’s normal functions.
它们能扰乱内分泌系统的功能，直接阻断或通过与内分泌激素相似的结构竞争性地抑制了其正常生理功能。
They're endocrine disrupters, which means they block or mimic hormones, affecting the body's normal functions.
它们能扰乱内分泌系统的功能，直接阻断或通过与内分泌激素相似的结构竞争性地抑制了其正常生理功能。
Style sheets provide the means to specify the rendering of arbitrary elements, including whether an element is rendered as block or inline.
样式表提供了，包括指定一个元素是作为块级别还是行内来展现在内的，控制元素绘制的方法。
The module was a Russian-built and United States-funded unit called Zarya or the FGB. Zarya means sunrise in Russian, and FGB stands for functional cargo block.
此舱由美国资助，俄罗斯制造，名为曙光，也叫FGB，意为功能货舱。
The flushed block is compressed by conventional means such as gzip or bzip2.
用传统工具（如gzip或bizp2）压缩已刷新的块。
The video site Hulu does not want people viewing its content on TV sets, so it has used technological means to block Kylo and Boxee users.
视频网站Hulu不想让人们在电视机上看它的内容，所以它使用了科技手段来丰都Kylo和Boxee用户。
So in other words, if thankful is still false at this point, it means this condition did not work out very well, and so I'm going to do this block of code again.
换句话说，如果thankful在这时候还是false值，这表示这个条件没有实现地很好，所以我将再次去处理这段代码。
So in other words, if thankful is still false at this point, it means this condition did not work out very well, and so I'm going to do this block of code again.
换句话说，如果thankful在这时候还是false值，这表示这个条件没有实现地很好，所以我将再次去处理这段代码。
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