"If you do not set deadlines in this town, things do not happen.

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But if you set out trying to implement this whole story line at once, if you set out trying to implement a cookie love story, it's just not gonna fly.

但是如果你一开始就想一次啃掉整块蛋糕,譬如你一开始就想,完成这个饼干人的爱情故事，你会发现这是行不通的。

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They told him that if earnings go up-- we try to keep a target payout ratio-- but if earnings suddenly shoot up, we're not going to increase our dividends right away because that would set too high an expectation and we don't want to have to cut it.

他们告诉他,如果收益提高,我们会努力维持既定的股利发放率,但如果收益大涨,我们不会马上提高股利,因为这样会导致过高的期望,我们也不想降低股利

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But here, if I decide I'm going to store things not in x and y, but with some other set of names, for example, I've gotta go back into these pieces of code that use the points, and change them. So I've lost modularity.

除了要改下借口,但是这里，如果我决定，我不把值放在x和y中，而是和其他一些变量名进行绑定,例如这样的话,我就得回到使用这个点的代码，那儿去做更改了。

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But it is in fact indicative of what's actually going on underneath the hood and for a forensic investigator to be honest and even problem set 5, it poses a potential wrinkle if those JPEGs, those photos we took are not contiguous back to back to back but are all over the place.

但是实际上就像那些法医调查员,所做的实质说明,其实对套题5也是如此，如果那些JPEG文件有问题，我们将其数据不能连续的,放回原来的地方，那么图像会呈现出波纹形状。

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So if you get the CD set, not only do you get a wonderful beginning library of classical music but in effect you get a lifetime service contract with it.

所以一旦你买了整套CD,你不仅可以拥有一个古典乐图书馆,而且还可以享受终身服务

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