Put up a sign saying ‘collective farm’. Then half the mice will starve and the others will run away.

在里面放个标牌，写上‘集体农场’四字，不多久大半老鼠会饿死，剩下的都逃之夭夭了。

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Nobody has alleged wrongdoing. But it hardly seems the hallmark of a well-run organisation. Especially one that should have its collective mind firmly focused on leaner and meaner pastures.

没有人被指责做错了些什么，但在一个组织良好的机构中，类似的事情并不光彩，尤其是在这样一个应该集中精力关注更为经济节约的草原的机构中。

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Just as with well-run Wikis or the Web itself, it requires little to contribute a helpful example, yet the collective value of all available Nagios plug-ins is very large.

正如运行良好的Wiki或者Web本身一样，可以很容易地提供一个有帮助的示例，不过所有可用的Nagios插件的整体价值是非常巨大的。

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