Perhaps a design works so well. It is adopted elsewhere again and again, with seemingly harmless improvements, until, suddenly, it does not work at all anymore.

一种设计效果很好，反复应用于其他地方，加上一些看似没什么影响的改进，突然有一天它就不奏效了。

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But for many patients, the drugs do not work at all.

但是对于很多患者来说，这类药物却根本不起作用。

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Bottom line, if messaging is slow, it is because your network is slow, in which case RPC would also be slow or would not work at all.

如果消息传递很慢，这由于您的网速很慢，在这种情况下RPC也会很慢或者根本不能工作。

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The scientists say they do not know how the treatment would work with patients who have no sensation at all below the injury.

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Some people at Twentieth Century Fox said she did not like to work at all.

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"There just was not any work out there at all,"

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More worrying for bankers is the risk that it might not work at all.

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It is vitally important, because misfolded proteins either do not work at all or do things that they shouldn't.

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When things do not go as anticipated, they may not work at all.

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