forking

基本解释

The garden of forking paths.
小径分岔的花园。
The Garden of Forking Paths was the chaotic novel itself.
小径分岔的花园就是那部杂乱无章的小说；
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.
我要做一个辩护--在这一点上我会接受这篇评论，就是这篇评论与其说是众多发行版更胜于用在Linux内核的分支上。

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.