The second drawer began to fill and as it did I wondered whether there were bigger discoveries out there, not just species, but life that depends on things thought to be useless, life even without DNA. I started a third drawer for these big discoveries.

第二个抽屉开始被填满。此时我在想外头是否还有更大的发现，不只是物种，还有依赖于人们认为无用的东西的生命以及甚至没有 DNA 的生命。我为这些重大发现设立了第三个抽屉。

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Sometimes, however, the system's overall brightness dipped even when the stars were not eclipsing each other-hinting at the presence of a third body orbiting the binary pair.

但有时，即使当系统在没有相互重叠时，这一对恒星的整体亮度也会明显下降——暗示着，还有第三个物体围绕着这一对恒星作轨道运转。

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Things become even more complicated when you're using a third-party library, because you never know which parts of the library are reentrant and which are not.

如果使用第三方程序库，事情会变得更为复杂，因为您永远不知道哪部分程序库是可重入的，哪部分是不可重入的。

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