Superstition days that making a cross with knife and fork at the table is unlucky and will cause an argument.

迷信观念认为在餐桌上把刀叉交叉放置是不吉利的，会引来争吵。

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Bolted across the station, making a cross at the point where the Russian and us sections meet, is a huge truss that carries 16 solar panels to provide electrical power.

与整个空间站紧固连接、在俄罗斯部分和美国部分连接处形成十字交叉状的是一个巨型的桁架结构，载有16块太阳能电池板，提供电力。

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My guess is your a re making a cross domain request so the browser is sending the OPTIONS request as a 'preflight-request' asking the server for permission to send the PUT request.

我想你再做一个跨域请求，浏览器发送请求的选项为“预检要求要求服务器发送请求的提出。”

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U.S.and Afghan officials say those same areas act as Taliban and al-Qaida safe havens for cross-border attacks, making them a crucial part of the Afghan insurgency's resiliency.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

In the end, it was Davydenko who brought the world number three back into the match with a poor game at 4-4, making a backhand error before going for too much on a cross-court forehand and dragging it into the tramlines on break point.

BBC: Djokovic edges past Davydenko

The Ivorian striker showed some much-needed urgency and a chance soon fell to Essien, who narrowly missed making contact with a header after a bending cross from Lampard.

BBC: Fulham 0-0 Chelsea

The free flow of goods and a common currency are one thing, but if companies have to deal with 15 different takeover codes when making cross-border acquisitions, a true single market is still an illusion.

ECONOMIST: Takeovers in Europe