侵犯人权出现在报告中的显要位置。

Human rights violations figured prominently in the report.

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作为一个谦虚者, 他愿意居于他人的次要位置。

Being a modest person, he was content to play second fiddle to others.

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鬃毛的吸引力——由菠萝和苹果片制成的狮子占据了餐桌上的首要位置。

The mane attraction—a lion made from pineapple and apple slices takes pride of place on the dinner table.

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Obviously we don't expect you to know exactly what the distances are, but you should be able to compare them relatively.

当然我们不要求你么,要能知道具体这些位置是多少，但你们要能够相对比较它们。

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But if, at any point, I get to a place in the list where the thing I'm looking for is smaller than the element in the list, I know everything else in the rest of the list has to be bigger than that, I don't have to bother looking anymore.

比当前位置数组的元素要小,我也就知道后面的数肯定,也都比我的目标数要大了，我就不用再继续进行下去了,这意味着目标数不在这个数组中，我就可以退出了。

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You've got to place the boundary at exactly the right place, otherwise you've got a bit too much in your system or a bit too little.

你要把边界,设置在正确的位置上，否则你的系统就会要么多出一部分,要么少一部分。

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