Today we know, for example, if you can put one certain kind of element in your mouth or eat that, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to put the element next to it and your mouth as well, that might not be safe.

现在我们知道了，比如，即使你能把某一种元素放进嘴里,或者吃下去，这也并不一定意味着,你会把它邻近的元素也吃进嘴里,这可能会有危险，但。

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Right, 'cause that means either I've been handed zero elements which mean there's really no work to be done or I've been handed one element which is a vacuous truth that it's sorted, right?

因为如果给出0个元素,那意味着不需要做任何事,如果给出1个元素，那显然,它是有序的，对吗？

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We use the term element to mean the lowest value.

我们说基本值，意味着是最小值。

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