with blinding speed

09:58 Jun 5, 2005
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English to Chinese translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology)
English term or phrase: with blinding speed
TraceSecurity’s Stickley says his job is secure as long as he can walk into a building, “wait for the lunch hour and ... round up a bunch of passwords from sticky notes on desks.” The remedies, of course, are simpler in theory than in practice: Be sure no one keeps passwords in plain sight, and automate the password-revocation process for ex-employees with blinding speed.
with blinding speed修饰automate吗?如果是,犯得着用这个短语来修饰automate吗?
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4令人眩目的速度,极快
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3suggest: 'move/act at the speed of light'; 'move/act at lightning speed'to automate...
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令人眩目的速度,极快


Explanation:
令人眩目的速度,极快

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suggest: 'move/act at the speed of light'; 'move/act at lightning speed'to automate...


Explanation:
'move/act at the speed of light'; 'move/act at lightning speed'to automate the password-revocation process for ex-employees = get this process automated without delay/immediately/right now/as soon (or quickly) as possible 刚快,越早越好

I don't know where this idiom has come from, but it seems common in IT texts...

Perhaps it ought to be in quotes, as in this reference:

Newsletters in html or plain text? All you need to know about this ...
... to forget the less fortunate web surfer plodding through cyberspace on the
back of a sputtering dial-up connection at the 'blinding' speed of 4800 kbps. ...
www.netgain.co.nz/library/news_format2.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

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