OK, clearly we'd be much better off if we had some systematic quantitative way to tell whether something would happen spontaneously.

好，如果我们有一些系统定量的方法来判断,一个过程是否会自发进行,那就会更好了。

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And the basic idea was that we had some sort of a line and we knew the answer was somewhere between this point and this point.

去学习的二分搜索是有联系的,这种方法的基础思想,是我们有一个线性的序集,我们也明白答案在其中的某一段区间。

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We have some set of things we want to do with strings, and different set of things we want to do with numbers.

这就对了,我们有一个可以对字符串，进行操作的方法集,还有另外一个不同的。

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And inside of the machine, and things we'll talk about, there is a process that will allow that sequence to be executed as described in that recipe, so it can behave like any thing that I can describe in one of those recipes.

在机器里面，还有我们要说的，里面有一个我们允许的,在方法中描述的,将要被执行的序列的过程，因此它可以像我在方法之中,描述的任意一种那样来表现。

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