Without such tools, we have no reference points to indicate how far we have advanced or retreated.

没有这些工具，就没有参考点来标明我们进步了多少，退步了多少。

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Without such tools, children and parents who speak one language and teachers who speak another have no chance.

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Houston InterWeb Design's flagship software, SiteBlazer, allows anyone to create and update their own Web site without needing any knowledge of programming tools such as HTML (hypertext markup language), he added.

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