Foreign firms may not have bothered to develop their own technology if the American sort had been available.

如果可以得到美国的技术，国外公司就不会费事研发自己的。

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Often it is senior executives who insist on being allowed to use their own technology for work, which makes it hard for it folk to say no.

经常有一些高级执行官坚持要用自己的技术设备办公，这让IT平民们很难说不。

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They have to adapt it to their own situation, but in many ways they're copying technology.

他们必须要将这些技术与当地国情相结合,但在很多方面他们仍是在重复这些技术

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