"As we and others have said many times, the way to move forward is to enter negotiations without preconditions and reach agreements on the two-state solution, a Jewish state of Israel living side by side in peace and security with an independent,contiguous and viable Palestinian state,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

A string is a contiguous sequence of characters aka bytes.

字符串就是一串,字符，亦称字节。

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But it is in fact indicative of what's actually going on underneath the hood and for a forensic investigator to be honest and even problem set 5, it poses a potential wrinkle if those JPEGs, those photos we took are not contiguous back to back to back but are all over the place.

但是实际上就像那些法医调查员,所做的实质说明,其实对套题5也是如此，如果那些JPEG文件有问题，我们将其数据不能连续的,放回原来的地方，那么图像会呈现出波纹形状。

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