With wired setups, the fear is that a burglar might be able to shut your system down simply by cutting the right cable.

对于有线装置，人们担心的是，窃贼可能只要切断正确的电缆就能关闭系统。

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Outage or system down information.

断电或系统故障中断信息。

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Overhead such as system down time, meetings, and answering e-mail

开销，如系统当机时间、会议和回复电子邮件

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"You cannot build a foolproof system for air security unless you are willing to slow the whole air system down to a crawl and institute very, very invasive procedures before Americans get on airplanes,".

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If banks get in trouble and they can't pay out -if one bank gets in trouble and can't pay out on its deposits, then that can bring the whole system down because it can cause a panic among investors -among depositors and banks -and create a run on a bank.

如果银行出现问题而且他们无法支付...,如果一家银行出现问题,并且无法支付提取的存款,那么这就会使得整个系统崩溃,因为这会在投资者中引起恐慌...,在存款人和银行中引起恐慌,并且造成银行挤兑

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But they have really had a big scaling down of the mass transit system this year.

但是今年确实大幅度削减了公共交通。

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It might have brought the entire system down and the parts would have been much more expensive and hard to replace.

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The nerve helps speed up the heart when it is necessary to be on guard and to calm the system down when we feel safe.

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The way to get true integration is to control everything from the operating system down to what kind of saw you are going to use on the glass.

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