forking

基本解释

The garden of forking paths.
小逕分岔的花園。
The Garden of Forking Paths was the chaotic novel itself.
小逕分岔的花園就是那部襍亂無章的小說；
One defense-- I'm sure I'll receive comments in this regard -- is that this comment is referring to forking of the kernel rather than a multiplicity of distributions.
我要做一個辯護--在這一點上我會接受這篇評論，就是這篇評論與其說是衆多發行版更勝於用在Linux內核的分支上。

The reality: these marketers are forking over a pretty penny to reach a silver-haired consumer base.
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After all, the cable business is predicated on consumers forking over money for access.
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Martorana is hardly alone in forking over so much money to the tech juggernaut.
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A fork is a tool used for eating food which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end.
A fork in a road, path, or river is a point at which it divides into two parts and forms a "Y" shape.
If you fork food into your mouth or onto a plate, you put it there using a fork.
If a road, path, or river forks, it forms a fork.
A garden fork is a tool used for breaking up soil which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end.