It's an old trick but it just might work.

它是个老把戏，不过也许能管用。

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All this sparks the question of whether this trick would work again today.

所有这些都激发出一个疑问：这样的骗局在今天能否再次凑效？

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The capture helper trick allows us to work around the compiler's limitations in dealing with wildcards.

捕获助手技巧允许我们在处理通配符时绕开编译器的限制。

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His trick is so successful that they agree to pay him money to let them finish his work.

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Now, Dr Harkema and her colleagues have shown that all that is needed to make the trick work in people is a little more fine-tuning.

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It is a long way from there to a treatment, but Dr Chapman has made the trick work in mice as well as Petri dishes (injecting the complex does, indeed, stop macrophages recruiting).

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Yet another free-work trick involves extracting useful services that require minimal effort.

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