Lifts stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be trapped between two floors, you had the unpleasant task of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs.

电梯停止了工作，所以即使你足够幸运没有被困在两层楼之间，你也要经历一项艰难的任务，要找到通往下几百层楼的路。

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If it has rolled all the way down to the village, it will be too late to go to-day.

要是它一直滚到村子里去，今天去就太晚了。

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What's more, reconstructions might be the only way to know what treasures looked like before time wore them down.

另外，重建可能是唯一能够了解珍宝在受时间侵蚀之前的模样的方法。

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Political analysts say if that happens, the two present candidates for the prime minister's post are likely to step down and make way for others who might be able to build a consensus.

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First, it's pointing to the beginning of the list, which initially might be down here at but after a while, might be part way through. And to that, I simply add a halfway point, and then I check.

列表中间的一个部分了，然后我求出列表的中值点,然后看看该点的值是不是等于目标值，如果是的话就完成了，如果不是的话，如果中位值大于我要找的目标值。

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Because it says, your program will still give you a value, but it may not be what you intended, and you can't always tell, and that may propagate it's way down through a whole bunch of other computations before it causes some catastrophic failure.

因为这意味着，你的程序依然会返回一个值，但是这个值可能不是你想要的，你可能还分辨不出来，而且这种情况会传播,结果会沿着正果计算过程传播下去,直到产生一个灾难性的错误。

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We were also shown a Tegra single-board computer measuring no larger than a single small-outline DIMM like you'd find in a modern laptop, proof that this action can be scaled way down depending on the kinds of devices manufacturers are looking to make.

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As for the high cost of biochips, there are signs that it could be on the way down.

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That raised hopes retail prices, which have risen in recent months despite easing wholesale prices, may now be on their way down.

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