If one of your friends sends you a message to borrow money on the Internet, you'd better phone him directly first to make sure of that.

如果你的一个朋友在网上给你发信息借钱，你最好先直接给他打电话确认一下。

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My view was that to do higher-level stuff, to build complete applications, you first needed to buy, build, or borrow libraries providing appropriate abstractions.

我的看法是，要做高层的东西或建立完整的应用，首先你需要购买，建造，或借用提供适当抽象的程序库。

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After all, to borrow from a pawnbroker, you must first own an object of value.

毕竟， 典当行业里，借之前必须先还—一个有价值的实物。

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After all, to borrow from a pawnbroker, you must first own an object of value.

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