"We have to give them guarantees that we have taken the power not to cut everything but in order to improve."

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

OK. Binary search is perhaps the simplest of the divide and conquer algorithms, and what does that mean? It says, in order to solve a problem, cut it down to a smaller problem and try and solve that one.

好了，二分搜索也许是,最简单的分治算法，这意味着什么？,也就是说，为了解决一个问题,把它切割成小的问题,然后再来一个个解决。

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I don't actually know exactly what it would take, but you just cut off and snip the relevant nerve endings so that we're no longer able to engage in that higher order thinking.

我不知道手术到底怎样做，但只要切除相关的神经末梢,让我们无法进行,更高层次的思维。

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