Xerox set about a process of reverse engineering. It pulled the machines apart and investigated the Japanese factories to find out how they could pull off such feats.

施乐公司展开了一项逆向工程。他们把日本的机器拆开，调查了日本的工厂来弄清楚他们怎么生产出了如此了不起的产品。

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You can do reverse engineering, but you can't do reverse hacking.

你可以做逆向工程，但你不能搞反向黑客。

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There are many software tools that help software engineers to accomplish this either by forward engineering or reverse engineering.

也可以通过其他许多软件辅助工具来帮助软件工程师来完成这些工作，或者是正向工程或者是逆向工程的。

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Management claimed to have gone to elaborate pains to make the software in its control systems inscrutable to reverse engineering.

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In the circumstances it is hardly surprising that Samsung has been so successful in reverse engineering the Apple iPhone.

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Even common reverse engineering tools merely render malware as thousands of lines of garbled text more legible to machine than man.

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