Xerox set about a process of reverse engineering. It pulled the machines apart and investigated the Japanese factories to find out how they could pull off such feats.

施乐公司展开了一项逆向工程。他们把日本的机器拆开，调查了日本的工厂来弄清楚他们怎么生产出了如此了不起的产品。

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The archaeologist said most boulders with markings were too heavy to turn over to find out if they were decorated on the reverse side.

这位考古学家说，大多数带有标记的岩石都太重了，所以无法把它们翻转过来确定它们的背面是否有装饰。

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Occasionally, you find yourself in a situation that’s the reverse of the section above. You have a file, but you don’t know what package it belongs to.

有时，你会发现自己处在一种跟上述相反的情况，你有一个文件，但不知道他属于哪个包。

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Next week David Davis will launch a taskforce to examine the recent fall in social mobility - and find ways to reverse it.

BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | In full: Cameron speech

The bigger picture of the Excellence in Cities' work in schools, says the minister, is to find ways to reverse generations of educational underachievement in the inner-cities.

BBC: Plugging council estate into school

But politicians and policymakers may not find it easy to reverse the trend of the past 30 years.

BBC: The Wealth Gap - Inequality in Numbers