Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp., once bitter rivals in the mobile market, formed an alliance to strengthen their positions at a time when other competitors have become far more troublesome.

在手机市场上的其它竞争对手都陷入更大困境之际，微软(Microsoft Corp.)和诺基亚(Nokia Corp.)宣布结成联盟，以巩固它们的地位。

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It is great that closer alliance between SOA and cloud computing is illuminating the importance of run-time SOA governance, but doing this at the expense of design-time governance does not seem right.

SOA和云计算之间的紧密合作点亮了运行时SOA治理的重要性，这固然很好，但是为了它而忽视了设计时治理似乎有失妥当。

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Were the Typhoon to win, it would be the first time, at least since Japan and America signed a security alliance in 1960, that Japan had awarded a jet fighter contract to a non-American firm.

如果台风胜出，那么将会是首次，至少在1960年日美签署安保条约后，日本将战斗机合同给与非美国公司。

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The Alliance spent some time complaining but eventually accepted it.

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