Not a village, not a human being, not a tree, not a blade of grass — the only breaks in the monotonous whiteness are gaping cracks which in places show the layer of moist, black clay underneath.

没有村庄，没有人烟，没有树木，也没有草叶——单调的白色当中，唯一打破沉寂的是那些偶尔露出底下湿黑土壤的巨大裂缝。

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Only 10 years old at the time, I contributed a little to the family financial pool10 with money earned from delivering the Toledo Blade.

虽然当时我才10岁，但是我也通过送《托莱多刀刃报》为家庭经济出一份力。

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Even though you can configure several different RAID levels using local disks within the blade only, you must shut down the system to replace a defective drive.

尽管可以只使用blade中的本地磁盘配置不同的raid级，但是必须关闭系统才能替换出故障的驱动器。

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Events with the sabre, which has a dual edge and a curved guard on the handle, are the only ones where a fencer can score with the edge of the blade, not just the point.

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With only 9, 999 produced, the LaCie Blade Runner is a limited edition hard drive for design-conscience consumers.

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That's less than a Piper Malibu Mirage, which flies at 250mph on only one three-blade propeller.

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