Batch and utilities tend to be large consumers of all kinds of system resources, and when pressed, may often escalate the workload.

批处理和实用程序往往是各种系统资源的消费大户，一旦它们挤在一起，常常会使工作负载逐步上升。

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As the financial system went into free fall in September, Podesta's team pressed the FBI to work overtime on security screenings of potential Obama nominees.

当9月金融系统失去控制的时候，波斯塔团队对美国联邦调查局施压，要求他们加班工作，对奥巴马内阁的提名人选进行安全排查。

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Keyboard: An input device on which characters are represented as discrete keys. When a key is pressed, the associated character is input to the computer system.

键盘：一种输入设备，它上面的字符是用一些相分离的键表示的，当一个键按下时，相应的字符就被送入到计算机系统中。

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As spending on police, prosecutors and prisons has steadily climbed in the past decade, increasing the number of people charged and imprisoned, spending on indigent defence has not kept pace, overwhelming an already hard-pressed system.

ECONOMIST: The criminal law

Five days after a failed launch, the Russian Soyuz rocket system has been pressed back into service.

BBC: Soyuz back in service after failed launch

But unicameralists are hard-pressed to cite specific failures of the bicameral, conference committee system.

ECONOMIST: State legislatures