What they are trying to say is that bits fall off machines-especially when they start to break down.

作者们试图说的是，颗粒从机器上脱落下来，特别当机器开始损坏时。

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Equipped with series of gantry laying off machines automatic feeder to finish feeding, punching and cutting, material return, and other procedures at one time.

配套系列龙门下料机自动进料，可一次完成进料、冲裁、退料等工作程序。

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Xerox set about a process of reverse engineering. It pulled the machines apart and investigated the Japanese factories to find out how they could pull off such feats.

施乐公司展开了一项逆向工程。他们把日本的机器拆开，调查了日本的工厂来弄清楚他们怎么生产出了如此了不起的产品。

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So you really just need to turn off a handful of machines to have this type of disruption."

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Now they ask us to turn off our machines.

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In the meantime, technicians at Creech are trying to get the virus off the GCS machines.

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Like Case and Deere before it, Vermeer branched off from farm machines into construction machines.

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