Patents were filed more for strategic purposes, to be used as bargaining chips to ward off infringement suites or as a means to block competitors' products.

专利申请更多的是出于战略目的，被用作抵御侵权案件的讨价还价筹码，或者作为阻止竞争对手产品发展的手段。

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This is an arbitrary block of XML, which means it can be formatted to match any XML schema.

这是一个任意的xml块，这意味着可以对它进行格式化来匹配任何XML模式。

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Allocating space by block means metadata updates per block.

按块分配磁盘空间就意味着要逐块更新元数据。

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Early rising also means a built-in block of exercise time, which pays dividends in the boardroom.

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To do that, you need to order a special wheel holder for the rear door of the H2--and that means you'll block a bit of your rear view as well.

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What the Treasury seem to be saying here is that they're uneasy about handing over borrowing powers to the Welsh Government when their only substantial means of paying it back is the income stream from the block grant - they'd like them to have the paper round as well as the pocket money.

BBC: Pocket money and paper rounds