Patents were filed more for strategic purposes, to be used as bargaining chips to ward off infringement suites or as a means to block competitors' products.

专利申请更多的是出于战略目的，被用作抵御侵权案件的讨价还价筹码，或者作为阻止竞争对手产品发展的手段。

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Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental of emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

情绪上的自我意识是情商的下一个基本要素：能够摆脱坏情绪。

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If you do this against a professional boxer, you will get your block knocked off.

如果你和一个职业拳击手对抗，你这么做就会招徕一顿暴打。

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The deformed cells block blood vessels and cut off the flow of oxygen to tissue in the body.

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Well partly this is just for fun-- this is what computer people sometimes do, intentionally or unintentionally but as also will see a really nice way to culminate the semester and frankly carve out a 10 hour block where you can bite off your final project's implementation surrounded by friends and the course's staff.

一部分只是因为好玩-,这是懂电脑的人有时会这么做，不管有没有意义,还有一部分原因是因为,以这种方式达到学期的高潮,并在朋友和这门课程教师的关注下,抽出10小时的时间完成最终的项目安装,是一件多么美妙的事啊。

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so we're one block off Golden Gate Park and ten blocks back off the ocean.

距金门公园一个街区，离海边有十个街区的路程。

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There's increasing evidence that left uncleared, clots can break off and block smaller arteries.

FORBES: OmniSonics' Clot Buster

Big 10 members have been trying to knock the bully off the block for years with little success.

FORBES: Tressel's Resignation To End Ohio State's Domination Of Big Ten

He dropped her off one block shy of the convention center.

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