And unless, you know, you've been hired to do Pirandello's Six Characters In Search Of An Author, this is not a great thing, because you get something that is really confusing.

可能一点关系也没有,要是你拍的是皮兰德娄的荒诞名剧,《六个找寻作家的角色》,那可能是件好事,因为你得到的是一个足够混乱的结果。

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But if, at any point, I get to a place in the list where the thing I'm looking for is smaller than the element in the list, I know everything else in the rest of the list has to be bigger than that, I don't have to bother looking anymore.

比当前位置数组的元素要小,我也就知道后面的数肯定,也都比我的目标数要大了，我就不用再继续进行下去了,这意味着目标数不在这个数组中，我就可以退出了。

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Indeed, one occasionally reads in the newspaper about this sort of thing where you can get tested for such and such a disease.

实际上，一次偶然在报纸上看到,有关这种在哪里可以,化验这种那种疾病的内容。

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In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.

就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。

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If you could take your five year-old or eight year-old in to get a vaccine that was orally administered instead of a shot that's a much easier thing to do.

如果你带着五岁或者八岁的孩子,去口服而不是去注射疫苗,那将会轻松许多

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So, the optimal thing to do if you live in a world like this n is to get n as large possible and you can reduce the standard deviation of the portfolio very much and there's no cost in terms of expected return.

如果现实中也这样简单的话,那么你就尽量增大,这样就能让投资组合的标准差,就会大大降低,从预期收益率的角度来看,这样做的成本是零。

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I, somehow if, I want to walk through some sequence of data structures, gathering up or doing the same thing, adding ages in until I get a total age and then divide by the number faculty.

我想，以某种方法，来遍历,一些数据结构，把它们相同的属性加到一起，就是一直的把年龄加到一起一直到,得到了一个年龄总数,然后除以员工的数目。

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Well, what I always do in anything like this is, the first thing I do is, I run it on something where I can actually compute the answer in my head. So I get a sense of whether or not I'm doing the right thing.

好的，我常常在,这种问题中会做的是，我会做的第一件事是我,会先带入我可以心算的值来运行,因此我能够知道我是否做对了。

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Now, normally that's a good thing because if you're out in the world and you get infected with adenoviruses you recover from it, your immune system can get rid of it.

通常情况下这是好事,这可以让暴露在户外的你,免于腺病毒的侵害,你的免疫系统可以清除病毒

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