This weekend I brought my girlfriend to a local ice cream shop where we had our first date. I also brought along my iPad, since I wanted to “field test” it, as I told her.

这个星期我把自己的女朋友带到那个我曾经和她第一次约会去的冰淇淋店，同时带上了我的iPad，对她的解释则是我想“现场测试一下”。

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For example, car dealers routinely send prospective buyers out on test drives, and pet shop owners encourage people to play with the puppies in the window.

例如，汽车经销商通常会让潜在买主试驾，宠物店老板鼓励人们和橱窗里的小狗玩耍。

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Russian shoppers in a Moscow branch of high street chain Top Shop were the first to road test the technology.

俄国的购物者们在欧洲时装品牌Top Shop位于莫斯科的旗舰店首次体验了这项新科技。

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But what government can do is lay the foundation for small businesses to expand and to thrive, for entrepreneurs to open up shop and test out new products, for workers to get the training that they need, and for families to achieve some measure of economic security.

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Rob Gough, one of the first to test out the device at the Spar shop he runs in Barry said he would defy any ban.

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By doing this, rod-makers shrewdly appealed to the way most fishermen road-test a rod: in a fly shop parking lot, where, inevitably, they try to cast as far as they can.

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