I've been trying to finish the Rule of Four (a fiction book). It isn't the greatest literary work but my short attention span does horrify me. Perhaps, as some might suggest, I am still a child.

这一阵子我一直试著要看完《The Rule of Four》这本小说，它不算是最好的文学作品，可是我真的被我短暂的专注力吓到了。

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After defining these four forms of a business rule, let's discuss the meaning of "rules" and how rules relate to each other.

在定义了业务规则的这4种形式之后，我们来讨论一下“规则”的意义以及规则之间的关系。

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The birds reacted to only one of the four jumbled versions, called SEQ2, as if they noticed it violated some rule of grammar, whereas the other three remixes didn't.

受试验的小鸟只对四分之一、被称之为SEQ2的打乱版鸟儿歌唱作出反应，好像它们注意到其违反了某些语法规则，而另外的三段没有违反语法规则。

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