I know it's boring, but we need to do it so you know what the ground rules are.

我知道这很无聊，不过为了让你们了解规则,我们必须得做这个。

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I mean that, that's an endemic problem. But, you know, I mean the rules are actually pretty simple.

那是一个地域性的问题。但是，这其实是非常简单的规则。

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I'm narrowing it down. It's getting a little silly but you know I'm going to really be persistent and just follow the rules here of binary search, rather than jumping to conclusions.

按照二分法的规则来做的,而不是直接得出某种结论,很明显这儿我的目的是什么？,显示这两个相同的东西。

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I know what the rules are.

我知道规定是什么。

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