There are many (more or less formal) definitions of what a components is.

对于什么是组件存在着许多种(或正式或非正式)定义。

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There is a drive both to standardize components and to reduce the number of models.

有一种使零部件标准化并减少型号数量的需求。

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It's extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components.

有一点非常重要，即我们要把它视为一个完整的系统，而不只是一堆独立组件的总和。

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He said that would trigger a cascade of events in which Honduras would find itself thrown out of many components of the inter-American system.

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Latte, which is a homogeneous system, has a very, very large number of components to it All the components that make up the milk.

拿铁咖啡是个均匀系统，但它有非常非常多的组分,牛奶中的所有组分咖啡中的所有组分。

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You can imagine that if a vector is viewed from an angle, then its components will vary with the perspective.

你可以想象一下,如果换一个角度观察矢量,其分量会相应地发生变化

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Add a few more components and a little more software, and it could become a home server that holds games, movies and music, and distributes them over a home network.

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As one managing director of a car components firm told me, it offers some light at a time when there's not much of it around.

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There are a lot of components to enduring a hurricane.

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