Despite our attempts to break it, the lock would not yield.

这把锁我们砸也砸不开。

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On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands traversed it from side to side without any break.

仔细看了以后，他才知道那并不是门。 它既没有门斗，也没有铰链，既没有锁，中间也没有缝。

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Because the CAM is beneath this point, it is the thinnest part of the lock and thus the easiest to break.

因为凸轮就在下方，所以造成此处是全锁最薄弱的地方，很容易被折断。

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None of this will happen unless we break the NEA lock on K-12 teaching.

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