The official Olympic website said there was “a soft breeze” – so soft that a special wind machine was installed in the flagpoles to ensure the flags fluttered. The air was more like bird's nest soup.

奥运官方网站称，当时有“微风”(其实当时场内的空气更像燕窝汤)，风力如此之微弱，以至于旗杆内安装了特制的吹风装置，以确保旗子能够飘扬。

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Although these marbles are even stronger than the glass itself, they can become very hot and soft in a machine.

尽管这些大理石要比玻璃坚固的多，但是他们在机器里就会变得非常的热，非常的软。

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Tasklets are scheduled through the softirq mechanism, sometimes through ksoftirqd (a per-CPU kernel thread), when the machine is under heavy soft-interrupt load.

通过软中断机制来调度微线程，当机器处于严重软件中断负荷之下时， 可通过 ksoftirqd（一种每 CPU 内核线程）软中断来调度。

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Enigmatic British musician Robert Wyatt, the former Soft Machine drummer, was invited to become Meltdown's artistic director this year.

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Ayres and Soft Machine toured the USA extensively with Jimi Hendrix but he left the band in 1968 after their first album.

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Bush can never do that because, long before the campaign, he made an unholy promise to Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell that he would never do anything to derail the Republicans' vast soft money machine.

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