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。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So things that are good candidates for divide And conquer are problems where it's easy to figure out how to divide down, and the combination is of little complexity.

因为适合用分治算法解决的问题,最好是能够简单的将问题进行分解,并且合并的过程不是非常的复杂,只要比线性方案要小。

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The people who were primed, subconsciously with words related to achievement, did better on tests than control group.

受到影射的人，用与“成就“有关的词进行潜意识影射的人，测试结果比对照组好。

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I still have to do this process and here is where the finger thing gets a little more useful 'cause I have longer lists.

我仍需要进行这一步骤,在这儿手指的方法就比较有用，因为,列表比之前的要长。

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The FHA went further than the HOLC; they demanded that mortgages be twenty years and also self-amortizing.

联邦住宅管理局比房主贷款公司更进一步,他们约定抵押贷款,可以在20年内进行分期偿还

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The point is that in this game in which firms competed in prices, even though there were only two firms in the market, only one firm more than monopoly, we get a dramatically different result than we had last time.

重点是这个公司进行价格竞争的博弈,尽管博弈中只有两家公司,仅仅比垄断情况下多了一家,我们得到了与上次完全不同的结果

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I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.

我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了

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What they show was rats who went through the maze and went through the maze again and again, learned far less than rats who took time aside, chilled out a little bit after a maze, had more margarita.

他们的实验表明,接连不断反复进入迷宫的老鼠，比进行一次迷宫后，稍事放松，来点小酒的老鼠，学到的少得多。

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And that idea was, we make a guess in the middle, we test it so this is kind of a guess and check, and if the answer was too big, then we knew that we should be looking over here. If it was too small, we knew we should be looking over here, and then we would repeat.

这些有理数是有序排列的,然后我们的想法是,首先在中间取个数作为猜想数，然后对这个猜想数进行验证，如果由猜想数得到的答案太大,我们知道应该跳过，比猜想数大的那个区间，如果太小的话。

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In '98, I forget which way, but one of the share classes 20% was at a 20% discount to the other and that persisted for several years, so you have economically identical things trading at different prices.

在98年，我不记得是为什么，一支这种类型的股票,比另一只股票便宜,而且这种现象持续了好几年的时间，因此你拥有经济意义上完全相同,但是却以不同价格进行交易的东西。

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STUDENT: So, the string A is less than three, is false because they're comparing like ASCII values?

学生：字符串A比数字3小，是false的原因是因为对他们,进行了ASCII值的比较么？

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A company, according to Modigliani and Miller, has to weigh their tax considerations against their bankruptcy costs and get an optimum debt-equity ratio out of that.

根据MM理论,一家公司,必须在租税考量与破产成本之间进行权衡,然后得出最有利的负债权益比

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