I look at the rest of the list to decide what's the element to swap into the next place.

我会查看列表剩下的部分,来看看需要交换哪个元素。

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And that you might look at, for example, that first example, and say, man by this stage it was already sorted, yet it had to go through and check that the third element was in the right place, and then the fourth and then the fifth and then the six.

你可能会去看看例如第一个例子，然后要抱怨，到这里,它已经是排好序的了,但他还是得去遍历查看,第三个元素是不是在正确的位置,然后第四个，第五个，第六个。

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Hmm. Well, wait a minute. If I want to sort a list, I'll take one element, I've got to look at probably a lot of the other elements in the list in order to decide where it goes. And that suggests it's going to depend on how long the list is.

我会取一个元素，然后去查看列表,来决定要把那个元素放到哪里,这就意味着它依赖于列表的长度,对，这没什么说服力，但是事实上。

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I've got one element to look at.

我可以查看一个元素。

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