Assume, for example, that an ESB communicates with more than one back-end service provider (which, of course, is virtually always the case), and that different providers have different timeouts.

例如，假设一个ESB与多个后端服务提供程序通信(当然，事实总是这样)，不同的提供程序有不同的超时。

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Unless you have some overwhelming passion that also happens to allow you to earn a living doing it, always remember that work should be a means to an end: living an enjoyable life.

除非你有无法抵挡的激情，恰巧也能让你从中得以谋生，否则请永远记住，工作只是一种手段，而不是目的，我们的最终目的是享受生活。

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It may not always be desirable to have the interface of an end provider as the published interface of an enterprise service on the bus.

将最终提供者的接口作为企业服务在总线上发布的接口的做法可能并不总是最好的做法。

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Weapons inspections have always been a means to an end.

CNN: U.S. 'skeptical' of Iraq weapons inspection offer

"When you are a professional athlete, there's always the fear you could have an injury that puts an end to your career or you can't evolve with the game or other people come in who are better than you to replace you, " added the 31-year-old.

BBC: Brian O'Driscoll relaxed ahead of 100th Ireland cap

On the one hand, she liked the idea of a memorial to the war because it implied the conflict could have an end but, on the other, she had always been wary of judgmental "black-and-white" attitudes to the Middle East in the West.

BBC: NEWS | Middle East | Iraq's war reaches the arts world