It's deliberate that a lot of the examples in lecture are fairly short and bite-size so that you can actually focus on pulling out the key ideas without getting distracted by line and lines of code.

很多的演讲中的例子,是短小的,因此你们可以集中于提取其中的主要思想,而不是被一行行的代码给分心。

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We're gonna focus on this line in particular and ask ourselves how do you sort the left half.

我们应该集中于这一行,并自问一下该如何对左半部分排序。

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It's more obvious because there are probably fewer lines there, so that you can focus on the primary line, the basic line--the bass line.

更明显的是这里也许有几条线，所以你可以将重点放在主线上，基准线，也就是低音线。

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