To keep your house mouseproof , check all small openings with a ballpoint pen. If it fits the hole, it will let mice in.

要使你的房子里没有小老鼠，用圆珠笔来检查下所有的小洞。如果圆珠笔能放进去的话，那小老鼠就可能钻进去。

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The check shirt is a reject - too small.

这件格子衬衣是个不合格品，太小。

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Any small interruption—a price check, a chatty customer—can have downstream effects, holding up an entire line.

任何一个小小的中断，一个价格检查，一个喋喋不休的顾客，都会产生下游效应，拖住整个队伍。

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You try to design actually I'm going to come back to that in a second. It's like you're trying to use a hash function that spread things out pretty evenly. But the places you store into in those lists may have to themselves have a small list in there, and when you go to check something, you may have to do a linear search through the elements in that list.

你尝试着去设计,实际上过会儿我会回头讲解这个问题,类似于你需要用一个哈希函数,非常平均的将物体分发出去,但是在列表中你数据,映射到的地方可能会有自己的一小段列表，当你回头查找数据的时候,你可能需要在那一小段列表中做线性查找。

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Just over a year ago, my wife wrote a small check for an end-of-the-year school function of some sort.

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It is not likely that they will be for each quarter next year, because most subscribers pay for a year in advance to get one month free and avoid having to write a small check each month.

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Seven more banks have agreed to review the sale of specialist insurance to small businesses to check for mis-selling.

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