Not so much the vague sort of dreaming that moves randomly from thought to image, but a more structured and defined dreaming; let's call it linear dreaming.

不仅有脑海中一闪而过的，各种模糊的想象，也有很多清晰的、有层次的梦想。我们姑且称之为：线性的梦想。

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Called "Redbacks for Greenbacks", it makes clear that the yuan's overseas expansion might not follow the sort of linear progression many in the West have assumed.

这篇报告题目叫做“元取代美元”，报告中清楚地阐述了人民币的海外扩张之路也许不会像西方设想的那样是线形推进的。

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Dendronized polymers are one sort of dendritic polymers with dendrons as side groups and linear polymer as core.

柱状树枝化聚合物是一种具有树状构造的以树枝单元为侧基、线型聚合物为核的柱状纳米级大分子。

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OK. Can we sort it in linear time? Hmmm.

恩，这个就不那么显然了。

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That one's not so obvious. So let's think about this for a second. To sort a list in linear time, would say, I have to look at each element in the list at most a constant number of times.

所以让我们来思考一会,要在线性时间能排序，列表里每个元素最多被使用常数次,不一定是一次，对吧。

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I could still do the linear case, which is order n or I could say, look, take the list, let's sort it and then search it. But in that case we said well to sort it was going to take n log n time, assuming I can do that.

我仍然可以做O的线性搜索,或者也可以以这个列表为例，我们先将其进行排序,然后再进行查找，但是在这种情况下,要花费n，log，n的时间去对其进行排序。

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