Having done that, it goes back up and picks the second sub-list, which came from there. It's a down to base case, merges it.

就是从那里得来的,完成这些后,回到上一步。

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When these two merges are done, we're basically at a stage in that branch where we can now merge those two together, which gives us that, and it goes through the rest of it.

拿到从那边得到的第二个子列表，这是一个基本情况,合并它，当这两个合并完成后，我们基本到了该分支阶段，这里我们可以把两个合并在一起。

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