When confronted with the source code of some unknown legacy system, how can an engineer know what grouping of software elements will produce some meaningful description of the architecture?

当碰到某个未知的遗留系统的源代码时，工程师如何能够知道软件元素的什么组合将生成某种有意义的架构描述？

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An engineer is supposed to know how to repair the engine.

一个工程师应该知道如何修理这台发动机。

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As a design engineer, I need to identify these frequencies and know how they might affect the response of my structure when a force excites the structure.

作为设计工程师，需要识别这些频率，并且需要知道当力激励结构时，它们是如何影响结构响应的。

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So maybe you could figure out how to use what we know about molecular biology, to engineer a new virus that's still immunogenic, but not pathogenic any longer.

也许你能指出如何使用,分子生物学的有关知识,来设计一个既能产生免疫性,但又不再有致病性的新病毒

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Advances in computer know-how -- the ability to "reverse engineer" almost any product -- mean that as soon as a luxury product develops a cachet there will be a band of forgers with the technology and resources to copy it.

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"Though I didn't end up becoming an engineer, knowing how to design an engine is interesting to know for my job today, " he suggests.

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