When we say that some event allows an effect, we mean that there is already some tendency for that effect to occur, and event fails to block the effect from happening.

当我们说，某些事件“允许”某些效果发生，我们的意思是说，现在已经有了某些效果发生的倾向，而某些事件未能成功地阻止该效果的发生。

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Monitoring applications may read event data from deleted monitor files while the file descriptor for the monitor file is still open but may not block for further event occurrences.

在监视器文件的文件描述符仍然打开的情况下，监视应用程序可以从删除的监视器文件读取事件数据，但是不再继续等待事件发生。

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However, there is a phenomenon I found that every time a big event or big news happens, editors mailboxes are chock-a-block with the articles which on this topic in a period of time.

然而，我发现了一个现象：每当我们的身边发生了一件新奇的或者重大的社会新闻事件，那么在此后的一段时间内，这类题材的故事作品就会源源不断地从四面八方涌入我们编辑的信箱。

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The pill, taken in the hospital immediately after a traumatic event, would suppress memory molecules and block an event from being etched into long-term brain circuits, a process that takes between 12 and 24 hours.

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An event is the basic building block of time.

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But the UK link to the traditional Irish event had already proved a stumbling block with some members.

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