I knew what it meant: The handrail could be completely pulled off and the safety tether might break, and I might therefore be pushed into space.

我知道这意味着什么：扶手可能会被完全扯下来，安全绳可能会断裂，我可能因此被推到太空中去。

youdao

As hard as it might sound to completely break our tether with physical media, neither the PSPGo and later versions of the PSP2 accept physical disks.

就像这听上去会完全打破我们对于物理媒介的认知一样，索尼的PSPGo和PSP2的后续版本也都不会有物理磁碟。

youdao

What is better for our health, a clean break or a tether back to the office?

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