He opened a small dry goods store, first in New York then in San Francisco,California.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

You try to design actually I'm going to come back to that in a second. It's like you're trying to use a hash function that spread things out pretty evenly. But the places you store into in those lists may have to themselves have a small list in there, and when you go to check something, you may have to do a linear search through the elements in that list.

你尝试着去设计,实际上过会儿我会回头讲解这个问题,类似于你需要用一个哈希函数,非常平均的将物体分发出去,但是在列表中你数据,映射到的地方可能会有自己的一小段列表，当你回头查找数据的时候,你可能需要在那一小段列表中做线性查找。

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A man named Luke Short owned a small store where he sold alcohol.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Some stores began placing a small sign in the store window.

VOA: special.2009.12.14