That way, new technologies can be developed and will work with existing ones.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

Not just the one where it didn't work, but also the ones where it did.

因为可能程序对一些输入可以，正确运行但对另外一些却不能。

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One of them might work even though the other ones don't work.

即使一些行不通,但其他的还有可能行得通

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But the ones that do work closely with government agencies.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

I would say that in Biomedical Engineering, largely, we're still at the stage where we're trying to understand how things work and how they fail, and what materials are the right ones.

我要说的是,生物医学工程很大程度上,仍旧停留在试图探索产品的工作原理,以及寻找产品存在缺陷的原因,和选择正确材料的阶段

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