They're trying to lay out an argument which is consistent and continuous and keep surprise to a minimum.

他们试图自然地建立起一个论点,使之一致，使我们的诧异最小化。

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When you mix two chemicals together, it could be any number, there's an infinite number of possible numbers and that would be continuous.

把两种试剂混合的时候,温度可以取任何值,对温度的取值有无数种可能,也就是说,是连续的

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And it's not a continuous nine words every day.

并不是连续的每天学会九个词

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As he puts it in the dedication of his most famous book, he writes that this book The Prince "is a product of long experience with modern things " and a continuous reading of the ancient ones."

从而催生出,他最呕心沥血的大作，他笔下的《君王论》,“是一部,对现代事物长久体验,与持续阅读古籍的结晶“

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Typically up till now, we've looked at things that can be done in sublinear time. Or, at worst, polynomial time. We'll now look at a problem that does not fall into that. And we'll start with what's called the continuous knapsack problem.

至今为止我们已经处理过,亚线性问题，最多也就是多项式问题,我们现在要看的问题则是不能用这些解决的,我们将要开始讲连续背包问题。

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You have discrete random variables, like the one I just defined, or there are also--which take on only a finite number of values-- and we have continuous random variables that can take on any number of values along a continuum.

就像刚定义的,是一个离散型随机变量,随机变量还可以有无限种取值,也就是连续型随机变量,随机变量可以取某一区间的一切值

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