经过表决决定把这件事提交给上级主管部门。

It was resolved that the matter be referred to a higher authority.

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异常处理的最常见用法是中断一个函数，将异常提交给调用程序(可能是该调用程序，或者是堆栈中上级调用程序)。

The most common use of exception handling is breaking out of a function to raise an exception to a caller (which may be the caller or a caller higher up the stack).

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上级把这个任务交给了研究所。

The higher autheorities assigned this task to the research institute.

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