Now, don't be distracted by the fact that they already appear to be sorted.

现在，貌似它们是有序的,但不要被这一事实干扰。

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Okay? That will be sorted up, it'll be up there.

明白吗,作业要放整齐,就放在那里

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Right, 'cause that means either I've been handed zero elements which mean there's really no work to be done or I've been handed one element which is a vacuous truth that it's sorted, right?

因为如果给出0个元素,那意味着不需要做任何事,如果给出1个元素，那显然,它是有序的，对吗？

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It's one element like I claimed before it's sorted and so there's no work to be done.

当有1个元素时，在比较前就知道它是有序的,那就没必要再进行比较了。

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This list is sorted, this list is sorted but they could be intermingled.

这个序列是有序的，这个也是有序的,可以将它们组合起来。

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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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