And in fact, one of the lessons you may already be realizing with P sets is that things seem to take twice, three times, four times longer than you actually might think.

从习题集中你可能已经得出的一个教训就是,程序所花的实际时间往往是你开始以为的两倍，三倍，四倍甚至更长。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Fast forward just about four years later, and the company's literally ten times larger.

此后戴尔快速发展，仅四年的时间，就壮大了十倍。

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If one chord holds twice as long or only half as long, then we have an irregular harmonic change--irregular rate of harmonic change.

如果某一个和弦持续的时间是其他和弦的两倍或者只有一半，这就是不规则的和声改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It varies with the square of distance so it goes - in order to go twice as far it takes four times as long.

速度是与距离的平方正相关的--,如果要扩散两倍的距离要多花四倍的时间

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Over that eighty-one year period you would have gotten a multiple of seventy-two.

经过81年时间,你翻了72倍

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