Motorola tried to replace its ancient, proprietary P2K platform with Linux, but ended up casting it off and returning to P2K.

摩托罗拉曾尝试用Linux取代自己古老的P2K平台，但最终还是放弃了这种尝试，回到自己的P2K平台上。

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To me, there's nothing like putting bait on you hook and casting it in a peaceful stream. No phones to ring, no supervisors to badger you.

对我来说，给鱼勾上饵然后将鱼钩投进宁静的小溪是再美不过的事了：没有电话在叮铃作响，没有主管来烦你。

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Instead of casting a wistful glance backward at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real costs of our own intelligence might be.

这一问题不是惆怅地回望那些我们人类在智力上已远远超越的物种，而是含蓄地询问我们的智力的真正代价可能是什么。

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After almost 20 years in the casting business, Wolfe says he knows what it takes to become a star.

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It's a dream of changing the tradition, of having that individual voice added to the tradition, to have it become part of the official heritage and yet at odds with it, casting a different light back.

这是试图改变传统的梦想，试图在传统中,加入自己的声音，让其成为官方遗产的一部分,尽管格格不入，在后面投入一片不一样的光亮。

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It is like light casting a shadow.

就好像光线投下影子。

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Many others, he says, bought the message they'd be wasting their vote by casting it for a third party candidate.

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And he urged Iraqis to vote, casting it as their patriotic duty.

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Or as another big beast in local government put it, they might be casting it as a public services commission but here's "the starting gun for Local Government Reform at last!"

BBC: Re-org local government? I wouldn't start from here