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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But I'm also proud of my alumni in this course who are not in the world of finance.

同时我也很为那些选修过这课的,却不在金融领域工作的毕业生们自豪

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His father said, "I see you are spending more of your time in idleness than in taking care of business at this crucial time."

他的父亲对他说,"我老是发现,你成天游手好闲,而不在这节骨眼儿上多花点功夫做正经事"

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The worst case here is, the things not in the list in which case I've got to go all the way through the list to get to the end.

目标数不在数组里,这意味着我必须遍历数组中所有的元素,好，说完了这些。

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