This workflow borrowed heavily from pre-existing work.

这个工作流很大程度是借用已存在的工作。

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The right to create derivative works (works based upon one or more pre-existing works and considered an original work of authorship).

创建派生作品的权利(这样的作品基于一个或多个预先存在的作品，并被认为是原作者的初始作品)。

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It all made military sense, and the Soviet arms-design community understood this immediately and went to work on its conceptual knockoff of the pre-existing German arm.

这一切都具有军事意义，苏联的设计团队在明白了这些之后，立即着手，在仿制德国武器时加入了这些想法。

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To achieve this the device has been fitted with 18, 688 Tesla K20x GPU modules made by Nvidia to work alongside its pre-existing CPUs.

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It's difficult, however, to find studies that argue the importance of matching a work environment to a pre-existing passion.

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"Pre-existing problems that people are able to sort of ignore and work around come to the surface and have to be dealt with, " Cannata said.

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