The program doesn't pause and wait for these huge computations to finish before accepting new data; it merely launches the process.

在接受新数据之前，程序不会暂停并等待这些大量计算的完成；它只是启动进程。

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The World Food Program says the three-hour daily pause in military air strikes will provide a bit of relief to the beleaguered population of Gaza, but, it is not enough.

世界粮食计划署说，每天暂停三小时空袭会稍微缓解加沙受困居民的苦难。不过，这还不够。

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This story is probably familiar: you're writing a test program and you need to pause for some amount of time, so you call Thread.sleep .

这样的情景您也许并不陌生：您在编写一个测试程序，程序需要暂停一段时间，于是调用Thread . sleep 。

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Its sister service, called "on demand, " allows users to order programming whenever they want, using on-screen menus to select a program that they can start, stop, pause, rewind and fast forward at will.

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