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Such things as light and wind only have meaning when they are introduced inside a house in a form cut off from the outside world.

类似光与风的东西只有在被以一种与外部世界隔绝的形式引入一座房子后才变得有意义。

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The utility runs very quickly as it is not acquiring any locks or latches and runs outside of the engine's resources (meaning it even works on a hung engine).

该实用程序运行得非常快，因为它不需要获取任何锁，并且在引擎资源以外运行（这意味着它甚至能在一个挂起的引擎上工作）。

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He wrote from the outside in, meaning the first and last songs were completed before he started penning the middle.

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