We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

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Now, as obvious a statement as that is in this algorithm, it turns out that is the key to this whole problem being solved correctly without my algorithm looping infinitely.

这是此算法中很明显的一句话，也是正确解决,整个问题的关键,否则此算法就会陷入死循环。

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One of the sentences that I'll repeat throughout the class is that happiness is much more contingent on our state of mind than our status or the state of our bank account.

有一句话我会在课程中经常引用,快乐由我们的精神状态而定，而不是社会地位或银行存款。

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