On the first day, hundreds of customers waited for up to 27 hours in a line that stretched a quarter-mile.

仅在营业的第一天，就有成百上千的顾客已经排队等候了27个小时，队伍甚至有400多米长。

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Similar to multiple bank tellers servicing a single line of waiting customers, efficiency improves when developers instead sign up for the next task when they've completed the last task.

类似于银行的多个出纳员服务一条等待的客户队伍，当开发人员完成一个任务准备进入下一个任务的时候他们的效率会有所改进。

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Customers don't line up at a discreet distance, the way city folk do; in Nucla they crowd the counter and talk loudly about health problems.

这里的顾客不像城里人排队还要保持距离；在纽克拉他们围着柜台高声谈论健康问题。

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Firms like Apple and Amazon generate customer delight so that customers line up for their products and services.

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But at Harrods, the giant London department store, sales are held only twice a year, and are so anticipated that customers line up before the doors open.

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But will it be enough to get more Chinese customers to line up for a daily caffeine fix?

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