更为新颖一项技术是自动精简配置（thin provisioning）。 由于目前应用程序和操作系统的限制，这一技术虽然具有潜力，但多多少少仍然属于小众化的利基技术（niche technology）。

A more recent technology enhancement is thin provisioning, which although promising remains a somewhat niche technology because of current application and operating system constraints.

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弗格森说，“用人口统计学的术语来讲就是，西方社会长期代表着全世界的小众人口，但是当今社会，这种小众化趋势明显逐渐减小。

“In demographic terms, ” Mr. Ferguson says, “the population of Western societies has long represented a minority of the world’s inhabitants, but today it is clearly a dwindling one.

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与之对照，现代的气候学家通常倒是觉得地球生物学就算不是一个边缘化的领域，也是一门纯粹的小众学科。

Modern climate scientists, by contrast, usually see geoengineering research as niche, if not fringe, stuff.

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