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Hong Yuan said that China’s military technology has adopted the policy of “developing in match with the growth of national economy, moving on by phases.” From the experience of R&D and deployment of China’s weaponry, it normally follows the cyclic pattern of “deploying-developing-designing”. So, if the stealth jet fighter appears, it is quite a normal thing. We should note at the same time, the U.S. stealth fighters have undergone R&D for more than twenty years or so. And it is constantly upgrading itself, and has far surpassed China in many areas. Under such circumstances, R&D of new stealth jet fighters is a direct manifestation of China’s efforts to catch up with the advanced level of military industry of the world.

Can you understand the bolded sentence in the above context?

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@fansy,

A cyclic pattern is one that simply starts over again at the beginning when the last step has finished.

The pattern described would be: deploying-developing-designing-deploying-developing-designing-deploying-developing-designing...

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@DrewDad,

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Hong Yuan said that China’s military technology has adopted the policy of “developing in match with the growth of national economy, moving on by phases.” From the experience of R&D and deployment of China’s weaponry, it normally follows the rolling pattern of “deploying-developing-designing”. So, if the stealth jet fighter appears, it is quite a normal thing. We should note at the same time, the U.S. stealth fighters have undergone R&D for more than twenty years or so. And it is constantly upgrading itself, and has far surpassed China in many areas. Under such circumstances, R&D of new stealth jet fighters is a direct manifestation of China’s efforts to catch up with the advanced level of military industry of the world.

Suppose we change "cyclic pattern" into "rolling pattern", how would you understand it in the same context? "Rolling" is supposed to be a literal translation of the Chinese expression, suggesting a bit by bit progress. This is often used to describe something that is achieved by stages, like you put forth a model first, and put it to application, then you make an improved model and put it to application again, and so you go on.

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@fansy,

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it normally follows the rolling pattern of “deploying-developing-designing”.

'rolling pattern' is not idiomatic for English as far as I know, Fansy, so it sounds a mite strange to me.

And from the available context, it seems like this does not follow the normal "put forth a model first, and put it to application, then you make an improved model and put it to application again". Rather there is deployment, then development, then design.

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