Not all investors get the same lock-up terms, and the ones with the longest-however short that may be-could be the last to collect their money.

不是所有的投资者能取得同样长的期权锁定，那些获取最长锁定期的——也可能是短的——都可能成为获利的最末者。

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This routine takes in two arguments, the second being the absolute value of time by which, if the lock could not be acquired, the routine returns with a non-zero status.

这个例程有两个参数，第二个参数是绝对时间值。如果在到达这个时间时还无法获得锁，例程会返回且状态码非零。

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The result of the messaging engine holding an exclusive lock was that the database maintenance utilities could not be run in the preferred manner, which was to do so for all tables in the database.

消息引擎持有独占锁的结果在于，数据库维护实用工具无法以首选的方式运行，该方式旨在对数据库中的所有表进行维护。

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Mr Ash said it was possible he did not lock a reversing lever into place, which could have prevented the locomotive from slipping between forward and reverse.

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Mr Ash, a retired professional train driver with more than 50 years' experience, said it was possible he did not lock a reversing lever into place, which could have allowed the locomotive to slip between forward and reverse.

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If the issue of vendor lock-in is not carefully managed, the cloud could represent a step backward in terms of its impact on flexibility and choice in the enterprise.

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