His mother convinced that he had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, and laid down some rules.

他的母亲认为他应该做一些激动人心的事情以防止他过上失败的人生，所以他的母亲制定了一些规则。

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His mother convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure and lay down some rules.

他的母亲认为她必须做一些戏剧性的事情以防他过上失败的人生，她还制定了一些规则。

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The main rationale for having the session concept is likely to prevent the failure of a partial configuration update from affecting the consistency and integrity of the whole configuration.

出现会话这个概念的主要原因很可能是为了防止部分配置更新的失败影响整个配置的一致性和完整性。

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The Superdome's power company took the blame Friday for the Super Bowl blackout, saying the cause was a faulty device that had been installed in its switching gear to prevent a failure of electric cables leading to the stadium.

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According to the prescription, the two governments should have borrowed vastly more, spent more again, in order to prevent such a failure of the economy.

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Not only did that prevent the repeat of a failure, but it sometimes led to valuable insights on, say, how to make a manufacturing process more efficient.

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