In the late nineteen thirties, he started to collect small pieces of paper including food paper packaging, paper cups and book pages.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

It's a little distracting using the cups since they don't fit on table and also, you can't see what they previously looked like.

在这儿并不太适合再用杯子,因为你们不能看到它之前是什么样的。

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And inside of each of these cups is a different weight so that in theory all of these cups are different weights.

每个杯子里的东西重量都不同,这样，从理论上看，这些杯子的重量都不同。

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Champ can also be found helping the local economy by appearing on souvenirs like T-shirts and coffee cups.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

So this is a little scale that if you put something here or here it's supposed to tell you which one is heavier and I also have 8 cups here.

这是一个小天平，如果你在这边,或者这边放一些东西，它就会显示哪边的更重,我这有8个杯子。

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There are also hats,scarves, magnets,mouse pads for computers, blankets,bookmarks,coffee cups, pens,and replicas of the Inukshuk stone statue that adorns the official Olympic logo.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

I'm gonna put two cups down and it looks like this one is clearly heavier.

我将其中两个杯子放到天平上,可清晰地看到这个比较重。

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The Blue Buckets Society has reacted to the lawmakers' initiative by organizing a march around the city, with blue pails and plastic cups attached to their heads.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

And now suppose that I want to sort all of these cups.

现在我要把这些杯子进行排序。

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And now I'm down to 2 cups.

现在就只有2个杯子了。

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Really there's no work to be done if I am handed all in sorted order so, you know, There's no work to be done if I'm handed all of the arrays in sorted order so, you know, if I demand that you give me this assumption that the cups are already sorted and then I'll sort them for you, I mean, this is kind of a cyclical argument.

如果杯子是有序排列的,那就没必要再对它进行排序了，同样如果给出的序列本身就是有序的,那也不必再做什么，如果给出这样的假设：,杯子已经有序，但仍需要对其进行排序，这像是个循环的论点。

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