These are sort of the cells, if you like, in memory that are holding the elements of the list.

记忆就像是数组中的元素,我们之前说的是，我在这里开始并且比较。

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To get any location in memory, to get to any value of the list, I simply have to say which element do I want to get, I know that these things are stored in a particular size multiply that index by 4, add it to start, and then it's in a constant amount of time I can go to that location and get out the cell.

取得列表中的任何一个值,简单说来，想要取得列表中的任何元素,我知道这些元素存在特定的大小中,把下标乘以4，加到start上,然后定位到内存单元，并取出值就是固定的时间了,好的，如果元素以固定大小存储。

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