在最好的情况下足球也是一项粗野的运动。

American football's a rough game at the best of times.

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即使在最好的情况下，来自更大、更成熟的公司的激烈竞争也使得小公司难以扩大他们的客户群。

Even in the best of circumstances, fierce competition from larger, more established companies makes it difficult for small concerns to broaden their customer bases.

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不过即使是在最好的情况下平衡也只能持续数十年。

But that balance will only last for a few decades, at best.

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And this was just a formal way of describing the best case running time and in the case of Selection Sort, what was the best case running time?

这是描述最好情况下运行时间的,一种正式的方式,在选择排序中，最理想的运行时间是多少呢？

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