Records are write-once, read-only documents that provide formal evidence of what was accomplished.

记录是种只写一次，只读的文档，它提供了正式的所实现内容的依据。

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These applications write their data only once but they read it one or more times and require these reads to be satisfied at streaming speeds. HDFS supports write-once-read-many semantics on files.

这些应用都是写数据一次，读却是一次到多次，并且读的速度要满足流式读。

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Worldwide, people speak differently than they write, and texting -- quick, casual and only intended to be read once -- is actually a way of talking with your fingers.

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