比方说，控制飞机方向的应用程序不能够有任何原因的延迟，否则将导致灾难性的后果。

An application controlling the rudder of an airplane, for example, must not be delayed for any reason because the result could be catastrophic.

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尽管这些错误的连接对生长中的老鼠是灾难性的，但通过蛋白质BMP4的控制，这个错误被摧毁和修正了。

But instead of this being a disaster for the growing mouse, these 'wrong connections' were being destroyed and replaced by correct connections, a process regulated by the BMP4 protein.

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那种选择不管对希腊还是欧盟可能都是灾难性的，就算资本控制权被收回，一部分希腊银行还是会倒闭的。

That option would be ruinous, both for Greece and for the EU. Even if capital controls were brought in, some Greek Banks would go bust.

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