And in another one, scientists are studying microbes in search of a cure for cancer.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

You'll remember that in his search for immortality Utnapishtim Gilgamesh sought out Utnapishtim, the one human who had been granted immortality.

他对永生的追求,吉尔伽美什找到，唯一可以长生不老的人类。

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We actually threw half of the list away and we kept dividing it down, until ultimately we got something of size one to search.

我们实际上将另一半的列表给抛弃了,我们接着不断的如此分解下去,直接最终我们搜索到了唯一的一个元素。

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When he was twenty-one, he went to search for gold in Alaska and Canada.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

I could cut that up into fragments, and I could search in these fragments to try to find the one that has the insulin gene on it.

我把那部分切成碎片,然后从中找到有胰岛素基因的那一段

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One of the first people involved in that search was James Lind of Scotland.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Now, one of the questions we could still ask is, right, we've got binary search, which has got this nice log behavior.

目前，还有一个问题我们仍然要问的是，对，我们已经学了二分查找，有着非常好的log级别的行为。

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But one difference: fewer of this year's graduates have started to search for jobs.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

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。

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However,one day in nineteen fifty-one, his search came to an end.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Well let's see. My fall back is, I could just do linear search, walk down the list one at a time, just comparing those things. OK. So that's sort of my base. But what if I wanted, you know, how do I want to get to that sorted list? All right?

我只能做线性搜索了,一次遍历一遍列表，一个一个比较，但如果我想要,那怎样得到有序的列表呢？,现在的一个问题是，我们排序之前？

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The search for possible quake survivors has now ended and officials said that no one remains officially missing.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

That does not assume I'm running a search it wants, which one's better?

哪一种更好呢？,未排序的，你们已经考虑到我想说的了？

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OK. So if I look at this code, first of all I'm calling search, it just has one call, so looks like search is constant, except I don't know what happens inside of b search. So I've got to look at b search.

首先调用一下搜索，就一步调用,看起来搜索是固定的，除非我不知道二分搜索的原理，那我们来看看二分搜索吧,所以让我们看看，第一行打印出来的内容。

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