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In 2008, a middle-aged businessman named Harmesh Pooni fended off his creditors by locking himself inside No man's Land Fort, a complex in the Solent straight near the Isle of Wight.

2008年，中年商人哈梅施·普尼的为了躲债把自己锁进了“无主之地”堡垒。这栋综合楼位于英国怀特岛附近的索伦特海峡。

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You just spent the last four years living in college dorms or off-campus housing, hardly Ritz-Carltons, so don't go locking yourself into high rents for the next year.

你只需花费四年住学校宿舍或者学校周边的房子，这样就不用在次年将自己被高昂的房租困住。

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However. given the Stormont parties' propensity for locking horns, I'm not writing off the potential for deadlock.

BBC: Will schools report follow in the wake of Eames Bradley?

The Mets, at the peak of their popularity in the mid-1980s, made the mistake of locking into a long-term cable agreement that cut them off from the escalating rights fees of the 1990s.

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Its second-generation Ankle Mimicking Prosthetic Foot (AMP-Foot 2.0) uses a pair of force sensors to determine the leg's relative position and let an actuator build energy when the foot bends, locking the power away to use only when the owner pushes off.

ENGADGET: AMP-Foot 2.0 prosthesis gives the power of real feet, keeps a light step (video)