and take a spot from somebody who might be more well-qualified.

这样就占用了许多名额，剥夺了那些本来有更高素质的学生的入学机会。

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Having done that, I could do the same thing, so I suppose I take this branch, I can pick a spot like, say, this one, and look there.

再从其中随即选取一个元素，比如这一个，请注意，如果相等则结束，如果不相等的话就在它的左边或右边找。

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If I want to move this stack here, I'm going to take a stack of size n minus 1 move it to the spare spot, now I can move the base disk over, and then I'm going to move that stack of size n minus 1 to there. That's literally what I did, OK?

如果我想移动这些圆盘，我先把从n-1个圆盘1,移动到多余的柱子上去，这样我就能把最底下的圆盘放到这儿了，然后再把从n-1个圆盘放到这儿来,这就是确切的我怎么做的对不对？

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