Direction means objectives. You can get nowhere without an objective in life.

方向意味着目标， 人生如果没有目标，将一事无成。

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As Yourdon points out, American programmers have gone forty years without an objective, credible way to measure cost, productivity, and quality.

如Yourdon所述，美国程序员在过去40年中，一直缺乏衡量成本、生产率和质量的客观、可信的方法。

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You can get nowhere without an objective in life.

人生如果没有目标，将一事无成。

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Without an objective criterion for judging teachers, he says the game would be totally rigged in favor of younger, less expensive teachers.

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So if the EMH is wrong then all of those prices will potentially be wrong: if right, well, how would we know without an objective comparator?

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Without an objective audience vote on winners and losers, our best way of determining who won and who lost will be determined by post-debate polls, who is able to continue raising money and compete in the months ahead, and who drops out of the race.

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