The historians named America's first president, George Washington, as second on the list of greatest presidents.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

We give them a list of areas in the business, and they get to select their first, second, third choice.

在我们给出的公司业务的很多领域中，做出第一，第二，第三选择。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

So finger-pointing at the start of each list, 6 is indeed less than 8 so I'm gonna write it down first.

手指指向列表的开始，6肯定比,8小，我先把它写下来。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In nineteen seventy-eight, the islands were the first place named to the World Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

First, it's pointing to the beginning of the list, which initially might be down here at but after a while, might be part way through. And to that, I simply add a halfway point, and then I check.

列表中间的一个部分了，然后我求出列表的中值点,然后看看该点的值是不是等于目标值，如果是的话就完成了，如果不是的话，如果中位值大于我要找的目标值。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Rolling Stone magazine placed the group's first album "Oracular Spectacular" eighteenth on a list of the top one hundred albums of the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

This is the first time we have in Christianity someone attempting to say,"This is the authoritative list.

这是基督教里面第一次有人说,“这些是权威书目。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

First on the list -- after the vice president -- was the secretary of state.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Let's start with the first, with A on this list here.

让我们首先从第一个问题开始

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The first woman to be on the "Top Ten" list was Ruth Eisemann-Schier.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

If you look at his book, again in the first chapter, he gives a list of countries-- it's based on an analysis that some others--that Professors Dimson, Marsh, and Stanton used in their 2002 book.

如果你再看看他在书中所讲的第一章，他列出了一些发达国家的名单-,这是根据其他一些人分析得出的,如迪姆森，马什及斯坦顿教授，在他们2002年出版的书中都用过。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

John F.Kennedy, the country's first Roman Catholic president, is sixth on the list.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

So I'm first going to look for something that's not in the list, I'm going to see, is minus 1 in this list, so it's going to be at the far end, and if I do that in the basic case, bam.

如果我试试第一种最基本的方法,噢，一下就完成了对不对？,因为这种方法查了下第一个元素，然后发现目标数比较下，因为目标数小于第一个元素。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The goal is to produce the first detailed list of sea creatures.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

I'm going to set up an index, which is going to tell me where to look, starting at the first part of the list, right?

索引告诉我从哪里开始检索数组，对不对？,然后我会去记录下我做了多少次比较，这样我就能看到这个算法的工作量了？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

(No Transcripts) Because it was his first appearance after the summer recess, the list was long: 37 names.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

OK, there's the first run, I'm going to take a different list.

好的，这是第一次运行，我要测下另外一个列表。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Maria Lay,a member of the ruling CNRT party, the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, says first on the government's list is building new power plants.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

And that's like kind of hoping that the element you're searching for is the first in the list and the last in the list. Maybe.

也就是希望要找的元素,在数组的头部或者尾部,情况可能是这样的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The guest list for the dinner provided a sample. Among those seated in the State Dining Room were the first two Muslims elected to the U.S.Congress Keith Ellison and Andre Carson.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

Just point at the start of this list, and this one so which number comes first?

指向列表的开始处，对于它来说,哪个数字在前面？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

First on the list: change the way U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

The easy thing to do would be the following: start at the front end of the list, check the first element. If it's the thing I'm looking for, I'm done. It's there. If not, move on to the next element. And keep doing that.

从数组的第一个元素开始：,如果这是目标元素那么结束,如果不是的话就继续比较下面的元素，并一直这么比较下去,但如果，在某一点我发现我要寻找的数字。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"The right environment means, first of all, looking at the list with the United Nations and removing names that are not part of al Qaida, that are not part of a terrorist network, that are just there because somebody decided to put them in,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Then,the first time you get a list by any Christian that we still possess,that is extant, that survives,that has the twenty-seven books of the New Testament that is in our bible,is in the year 367.

由基督教徒列出的,现在仍然存在的，并且包括新约里27本书的,最早书目出现于主后367年。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

It took me seven comparisons, because I can take advantage of the fact I know I only ever have to look at the first element of each sub-list. Those are the only things I need to compare, and when I run out of one list, I just add the rest of the list in.

进行了7次对比，因为我可以利用我知道的优势：,每次只需要比较每个子列表的第一个元素,那才是我需要进行对比的内容,当一个列表的元素处理完了,只需要将另一个列表剩下的元素直接添加进去。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We're going to call binary search, it's going to take the list to search and the element, but it's also going to say, here's the first part of the list, and there's the last part of the list, Well, it checks to see, is it bigger than two?

我们将要调用这个二分查找,它将会在列表里面搜索元素，假定这里是，列表的第一个元素,那里是列表的最后一个元素，代码内部到底做了什么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Here's the first list of size one.

这是第一个长度为一的列表。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So the first one here is something called insertion sort which amounts to going through the list, taking the first thing that you see and inserting that element into its correct place, - then moving on to the next one, dealing with what element-- whatever element you're given and putting it in its right place.

首先是插入排序,在此算法中，需要遍历整个列表,将你遇到的第一个元素放在其正确的位置，然后移动到下一个元素，继续处理-,不管是什么元素,都将其插入到合适的位置。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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