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And the weirdest bit is, they don't seem to mind sabotaging the original idea that got them interested in the first place, in order to maintain their newfound social status.

更奇怪的是，为了能保持住新得到的社会地位，他们并不在意去阻碍他们当初所感兴趣的那个想法的进程。

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It may seem obvious, but it is important to comprehensively test these components in order to verify that when a failure does occur, they do their job and maintain availability.

虽然可能看起来很明显，但是全面测试这些组件，以验证当一个组件失效发生时它们会作相应的工作并维护可用性是很重要的。

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(Speaking) He says police used to work to maintain order in the city, but now they working to meet the needs of the people.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

They had no buses or bus drivers to evacuate the Superdome, the Convention Center, or the Clover Leaf, and they failed to maintain law and order.

NPR: House Report on Katrina Details Critical Response Flaws

Foreign governments risk overheating and asset bubbles in their economies if they maintain inappropriately low interest rates in order to keep their currencies undervalued vs. the U.S. dollar.

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People observe a queue because they know what behaviour is expected of them to maintain order.

BBC: Who, what, why: How to get off a busy train