For ordinary people, the frustrations are endless. Refrigerators become useless. Water runs out because it relies on electrical pumps. Children do their homework by candlelight.

对普通人来说，挫折更是永无止尽。冰箱变得毫无用处；水也没了，因为水得靠电动泵；孩子们在烛光下做作业。

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Water runs out because it relies on electrical pumps. Children do their homework by candlelight.

冰箱变得毫无用处；水也没了，因为水得靠电动泵；孩子们在烛光下做作业。

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So EPR is engineers operating operable systems, pumps, motors, back up electrical generators and for everything else there's our.

所以，EPR就是工程师在运行着课操作的系统，泵，发动机，补充发电机，其他的事情，还有我们的。

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The water is further heated by five solar-powered electrical pumps, to create radiant heat coming up through the wooden floorboards.

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Focus instead on the next wave of potential computer miscreants -- criminals who can penetrate corporate computer systems to turn valves, start pumps or surge power at factories or electrical plants.

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The situation has evolved slowly but in a manner that was not anticipated by designers who had not assumed that electrical power to run emergency pumps would be unavailable for days after the shutdown.

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