"You can't just preach lofty goals and wait for somebody else to act.

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They just wait, they wait for their time, they wait until you are in danger from a particular antigen.

它们时刻准备着,在等待着那一刻,等待你被某种特别的抗原威胁的时刻

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If I look for, say, minus 1, you might go, gee, wait a minute, if I was just doing linear search, I would've known right away that minus one wasn't in this list, because it's sorted and it's smaller than the first elements.

如果我要查找-1，你可能要怒了，呵呵，等一等，如果我用的是线性查找，我不会知道-1不在这个列表中,但是列表是排好序的,1又比第一个元素小。

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Similarly, if you're dealing with immature humans and you want your child to get you a beer, you can't just sit, wait for the kid to give you a beer and uncap the bottle " and say, "Excellent. Good. Hugs."

类似的，如果你要训练的是未成年人,如果你想让你的孩子帮你拿一罐啤酒，你就不能只是坐着，等孩子把啤酒拿给你,然后你打开瓶盖,说，“太棒了，来抱一下“

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If you instead use GetString, same thing: blinking cursor, the function is just going to wait for the user to type a word, a sentence or whatever, and then hit Enter.

如果你用GetSring来代替它，同样的：闪烁光标，那个函数只是等待用户来,输入一个单词，一个句子什么的，然后敲回车。

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