Work came to a halt when the machine broke down.

机器一坏，工作便停了下来。

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He told me a machine would put that lady out of work. Breaking those bricks meant she'd earn enough money to feed herself and her baby that day.

他跟我说，如果用机器，那个女人便会丢掉工作。而将那些砖头敲碎意味着她能赚到足够的钱让她和她的孩子在那天吃饱。

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Setting up a machine for KDB requires a little work in that the kernel needs to be patched and recompiled.

设置一台用于KDB的机器需要花费一些工作，因为需要给内核打补丁并进行重新编译。

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One day,a salesman came to the work area with a new drilling machine powered by steam.

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Instead, she said, the teams of people that take on the biggest, baddest foes in WoW have to work together like a well-oiled machine.

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We never ask a human to work a for us, once that machine is developed, that does the job better than any human every could.

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