"Think about it, " said J. Steven Picou, a sociologist at the University of South Alabama. "The script for a purely natural disaster is: impact, then rescue, then inventory, then recovery.

一位南亚拉巴马大学的社会学家J。斯蒂文。皮考说：试想一下，对于自然灾难的描述一般如下：先是造成的影响，营救行动，然后是清点损失，最后是恢复重建。

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Then you have a decrease in reactor coolant inventory.

然后，反应堆冷却剂存货会减少。

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But leaving it until the last minute would be analogous to building up an enormous inventory and then attempting to burn the midnight oil to get it through the final stage.

但如果置之不理直到最后一分种的话就好象建立一个超大的库存，然后企图用开夜车的方式度过最后的阶段。

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And a dealer--what a dealer does is it maintains an inventory of, in this case, treasury bills and then it stands ready to buy and sell.

中间商所做的是,囤积各类国库券,随时准备交易

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What you normally do is you go to a dealer and a dealer is someone, a professional, who participated in the auction and bought these up to accumulate an inventory to then sell off to you, the customer.

你通常会去找一些中间商,中间商是专业从业者,他们参与拍卖,积蓄库存,再转销给一般顾客

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But what looks like this orange block as of now in Scratch, add orange to your so called inventory, well, it's gonna take at least two lines of code in C to actually create the inventory array with this first line and then put something like the word orange inside of it.

就好比Scratch里面橘色的这一块，把“桔子“加到所谓的“清单“里面去,在C语言中至少需要两行代码来实现,第一行代码创建一个货单数组,第二行就需要把“桔子“放进去。

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As the economy evolved, value creation was driven more by prowess in manufacturing, then it shifted to distribution, then inventory management, and finally technology development.

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It goes in the inventory then it goes down under wet(ph) process.

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The traditional approach is for a retailer to buy a diamond which then sits in its inventory awaiting a buyer, often for months or even years.

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