这种材料肯定更加昂贵，但也比竹子更加实用。

The material was certainly more expensive, but also more practical than bamboo.

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这比使用函数边界实用得多，函数边界提供的范围可能太大或太小。

These are more practical than using the function boundaries which may provide too much, or too little, scope.

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只要有可能，应该在初次装载一个表之前创建其所有索引，因为LOAD实用程序建立索引的效率比CREATE INDEX过程要高。

Whenever possible, create all indexes on a table before initially loading it, since the load utility builds indexes more efficiently than the create index process.

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And so it’s not quite as useful as Facebook which is great for social reasons.

对于拓展社交圈的话，它不会比Facebook更实用。

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