"When we ask them what is the biggest problem in the local areas we find that security takes a back seat and issues like electricity, roads,water,and unemployment come up on top,"

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Are there other indicators or tricks or rules of thumb that just off the top of your head come to you as useful mechanisms for doings this as well?

当然还有没有其他的,一些暗示或者说技巧,或者规则之类有用的办法呢？

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As you come to the top of the building, the elevator has to decelerate, so that it loses its positive velocity and comes to rest.

当你要到顶时,电梯需要减速,此时电梯速度减小最后静止

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But very soon will you find that if you're writing programs with lots and lots of functions, and some might call these, and these might call these, you can come up very soon with scenarios where you can not order them top to bottom, because everything is comingled, and there's a lot of cross talk among all of your functions.

但是不久后你们会发现你们写的程序中,有很多很多的函数，有的函数调用这些函数，这些函数又调用另外的函数，你不能用脚本,把它们从上到下排序，因为所有函数相互混合,在你的函数中也有很多交叉。

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We know we need to divide by 266, 266 but what we need you to help us with is to figure out this top number here and see how many particles are going to backscatter. So if the TAs can come up and quickly hand out 1 particle to everyone.

知道背散射的概率就可以了，我们知道要除以,但还需要你们来搞清楚,分子上的数是多少，有多少个发生背散射的粒子,助教们请过来,把这些球分给同学们。

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So you can think of it as left or right, top to bottom, or whatever, the point is they come next in RAM.

你可以想象它们为left或者right，从上到下，要点是它们在内存中紧随其后。

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