Haven't hit it yet so I've got to hit it next time. If I wasn't in the final it would have been a huge disappointment.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This is actually a case that one of the students in the class asked about, I think it was last week,if it wasn't even earlier.

这也是上周或是更早时候，班上一个同学问过的问题。

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But if it wasn't for the taxpayers, I mean,we wouldn't be here."

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

At first I wasn't sure if I could continue it.

起初我不确定能否继续经营下去。

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If it was a bearer note " if the note said I'll pay if it wasn't a unique object but just gold the note would say that this goldsmith will pay to the bearer so many ounces of gold.

如果这是一个不记名票据,如果上面写着：“我会付款的,如果上面写着的东西只是金子而不是特别的物品,那么票据上就会显示这个金匠,要给这个不记名者多少盎司的金子。

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Because in doing that, Python would then have a value that it could pass on into some other part of a computation, and if it wasn't what I wanted, I might be a long ways downstream in the computation before I actually hit some result that makes no sense.

因为如果这样做的话，Python会将,输入的值传递到下面的,一些运算中去，如果这个值的类型不是我想要的，我可能会在得到,一个毫无意义的结果之前,经历一个很长时间的,计算过程。

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