And that is a preface to an idea of computational complexity we're going to come back to.

这是我们日后,要讲的计算复杂度的,一个前言。

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In the preface to his largest book, the Discourses on Livy, he compares himself to Christopher Columbus for his discovery of what he calls " "new modes and orders."

在他最大一部著作，《论利瓦伊》的序言中，他将自己和哥伦布相比,因为他发现,其所谓的，“新模式与秩序“

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The law code of Hammurabi is available to us and there's a preface to it in which he basically explains why you should obey the rules that he now is laying down for you.

汉莫拉比法典为我们提供了证据,汉莫拉比在法典的前言中向我们解释了,为什么要遵守他颁布的法律

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Remember I asked you from the preface, John Ray's preface, to figure out who Dolly Schiller is, who dies in childbed.

还记得我曾让你们找出约翰·雷序言中的，死在产床上的多莉是谁。

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So to just preface what we're going to do next time, what would happen if I wanted to do sort, and rather than in sorting the entire list at once, I broke it into pieces, and sorted the pieces, and then just figured out a very efficient way to bring those two pieces and merge them back together again?

所以为了引导下一次,我们要讲的内容,如果我想做排序,而且不是一次吧整个列表排完,会发生什么，我把它拆成小的列表,然后把各个小列表排序,接着用高效的方法再把小的列表？

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