A warning: the root must not be cut into smaller pieces.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

If you have a set of blocks, mechanical, physical blocks,and I tell you to build something and I say, oh, by the way, you have to cut the blocks in smaller pieces, you are going to get angry, aren't you?

如果你要一个区块，力学的，物理区块，我告诉你要去建造东西,我说，顺便说一下，你必须将一整区块切成小块，你会生气，不会吗？

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Where those pieces, I would do the same thing with, I would divide them up into smaller chunks, and sort those. Is that going to give me a more efficient algorithm?

合并起来，而那些小列表,我又会把他们拆成更小的列表,再排序，这会给我,一个更高效的算法么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Physically,the rocks break down into smaller and smaller pieces.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

The economic recession is also affecting Diwali buying, jewelers say in general the pieces are smaller, whether gold, platinum or diamonds.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17