Reverse engineering is a process of analysing an existing system to identify its components and their interrelationships and to create representations of the system at a high level of abstraction.

逆向工程是对一个已存在系统的分析处理，以鉴别它的组成部分及它们的内在联系，从而以高层抽象性来构建一个系统的框架。

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Rather than a history of inventions, Mr Rosen’s book is a study of invention itself, the process of tinkering with an existing mechanism to make it better.

罗森先生的书不是一部关于各种发明的历史，而是对于发明本身——即拿现有的机制做实验并使之改善的过程——的研究。

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The process generates a new file name based on the number of existing files, and specifies the output directory.

该流程会基于现有文件的数量生成一个新文件名，同时指定输出目录。

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It's instead a process of organizing pre-existing materials And imposing order on those chaotic materials.

相反，它是一个组织原来存在物质的过程,并且给这些混乱的物质赋予秩序。

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Rather than a history of inventions, Mr Rosen's book is a study of invention itself, the process of tinkering with an existing mechanism to make it better.

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