如果出现了错误，它们就被以为是现场指挥官的错。

If mistakes occurred, they were assumed to be the fault of the commander on the spot.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

这个术语最初是用于指示设计模式出现了错误。

The term was originally used to refer to a design pattern gone wrong.

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那么，这是出现了错误，不能发出完整的订单。

Then, something goes wrong and the complete order can't be shipped.

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If you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, you were history. That was all.

如果你在错误的时间出现在错误的地点,那你就将死定了

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It's a bad habit to get into, because when you come back to it, it may haunt you later on down the road. So really get into that notion of trying to be defensive as you program.

来运行程序的时候,错误就会出现缠住你了,因此现在我们真的要培养,在程序中有防卫性设计的概念。

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You can very quickly drive yourself nuts by sitting down, thinking, oh, I can write this program, no sweat, and then you write it and then there's a tiny little mistake here, but then there's a tiny little mistake here and here, and all of these stupid little things cascade until you try running your program, and the thing just doesn't work.

如果你只是仅仅干坐着，不费吹灰之力，凭空幻想着我可以把这个项目搞定，你会想地发疯的，也许你会写出一点东西出来，可能会有一点点错误,紧接着这或那又出现一点小错误，这些小错误一点一点地堆积了起来,直到你开始运行你整个项目，你会发现这堆东西根本就不工作。

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