1. A border guard grumbles that the only tourist in weeks has set off her tripwire. 一个边防人员抱怨说，几个星期只来了这么一位游客，还就触发了她负责的虚拟警戒线。
2. As Tripwire started up, it tried to create a temporary file, as many programs do. 与很多程序一样，Tripwire启动时会尝试着创建一个临时文件。
3. This was no accident. Mallory's program was designed to create the very file names most likely to be used by Tripwire. 这不是偶然的；mallory程序的设计目标就是创建最有可能为Tripwire所使用的文件名。
4. A security precaution on this server was that every day, it ran the security program Tripwire — specifically, the older version, 2.3.0. 这台重要的服务器的安全措施之一是，它每天都运行Tripwire——具体地说，是较老的2.3.0版本。Tripwire是一个检测重要文件是否被篡改的安全程序。
5. Nominees must answer whether they have paid all local, state and federal taxes, including those for household employees — a common tripwire. 提名人必须回答他们是否缴纳了地方、州和联邦的所有税款，包括为家庭雇员缴纳的税款——有不少人会被这一条绊住。
