Mind you, a very particular kind of nothing: the nothing that stands in the empty slot in the middle.

注意，这是具有特殊含义的“没有”：“没有”指的是中间的空隙。

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They have to earn their slot in the chain, and that success will be closely watched by the rest of the industry.

他们必须在产业链中赢得一席之地，而那一成功将受到业内其他企业的密切关注。

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Today they have to earn their slot in the chain, and that success will be closely watched by the rest of the industry.

在今天，他们必须赢得他们在这个链条中的位置，而且成功之后也还得提防行业中的觊觎者。

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O'Dea will have to break up the central-defensive pairing of Gareth McAuley and Tommy Smith if he is to get games under his belt while in Suffolk, but says he can slot in elsewhere in the back-four.

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Last week, the newsmagazine drew nearly 8 million viewers in the slot, a respectable Leno lead-in on an otherwise little-watched night.

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And with two minutes to go Roger Johnson somehow managed to slot a Cardiff in-swinging corner past the far post from three yards out.

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