《阿拉比》比较简单，因为它是线性的，故事按时间顺序展开。

Araby is easier because it's linear, the story unfold chronologically.

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会话树，或非线性消息，比较混乱。

Conversation trees, or non-linear message threads, are chaotic.

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通过和单自由度线性弹簧-质量-阻尼系统进行比较，得到该带裂缝梁结构的等效自然频率和等效粘滞阻尼比。

The equivalent viscous damping ratio and the equivalent natural frequency are obtained by comparing the system with a purely linear, spring-mass-damper system of single freedom.

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Well let's see. My fall back is, I could just do linear search, walk down the list one at a time, just comparing those things. OK. So that's sort of my base. But what if I wanted, you know, how do I want to get to that sorted list? All right?

我只能做线性搜索了,一次遍历一遍列表，一个一个比较，但如果我想要,那怎样得到有序的列表呢？,现在的一个问题是，我们排序之前？

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And if you just look at the numbers, you can see how it cuts in from one side and then the other side as it keeps narrowing that range until it gets down to the place where there are at most two things left, and then it just has to check those two to say whether it's there or not.

你能看到他是如何不断的，从一个大的范围被拦腰劈开,知道最终只剩下两个数字,然后就只需要,比一比就知道结果了,将它同线性查找比较下。

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Typical characterization, not all the time, but typical characterization, is an algorithm that reduces the size of a problem by one, or by some constant amount each time, is typically an example of a linear algorithm.

我们学习过了线性算法，它的典型特征，不是通用的,但是比较典型的特征是，它是逐一减小问题的大小的，或者说是每次减小常数的大小。

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