When there's a contradiction in our heads we're not happy and will take steps to make the contradiction go away.

当我们的心理活动出现矛盾时,我们会不安，会采取办法,让这种矛盾消失。

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And also be well-informed as to what you need to do and the steps you need to take

对于你要做什么，要采取什么步骤，你都要保持消息灵通，

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Our goal is to take problems and break them down into these computational steps, these sequence of instructions that'll allow us to capture that process.

我们的目标是得到问题,然后将问题分解为这些计算步骤，这些指令集,可以让我们看到这个过程。

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now let's go back to each of our individual steps and look, based on what we know about how to evaluate the thermodynamic changes that take place here, let's look at each one of the steps and see what happens.

让我们回到循环中的每一步,然后看看，基于我们已有的知识,来估计一下,发生的热力学变化，让我们看,循环中的每一步发生了什么。

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I think there are a lot of steps that we can and should take towards mitigating it,

我认为我们有许多方法来减缓气候变暖，而且我们也必须这么做。

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Presumably, a part of his brain quickly mobilized his faculties to scope out how to flee and how to take steps to avoid a vulnerable predicament in the future.

假定，他的一部分大脑,快速调动身体各部位,思考如何逃跑，如何采取措施,避免将来易受伤害的窘状。

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It's where I come to relax and to read on the steps or to take the train.

我来这儿休息放松，坐在台阶上看书或从这儿搭乘火车。

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and what steps they need to take in order to graduate high school,

以及他们下一步要做什么来完成高中毕业，

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One way to think about this intuitively if the derivative is very large the function is changing quickly, and therefore we want to take small steps.

关于这个方法很直观的一点想法是,如果导数非常大,函数也就变化的非常快，因此我们想一小步一小步的来。

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Suppose instead, I want a machine that can take a recipe, the description of a sequence of steps, take that as its input, and then that machine will now act like what is described in that recipe.

假设换成这个，我想要一台可以安装描述，一系列步骤的结果的方法的机器，把那个当做输入设备，然后那台机器可以像方法中,描述的那样运行了。

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So we're to assume we can get to any piece of data, any instruction in constant time, and the second assumption we're going to make is that the basic primitive steps take constant time, same amount of time to compute. Again, not completely true, but it's a good model, so arithmetic operations, comparisons, things of that sort, we're all going to assume are basically in that in that particular model.

因此如果我们假设在恒定的时间内,我们可以取得任何一块数据,任何一种数据结构的话,我们要做的第二个假设就是,基本的原始操作计算花费的时间是恒定的,这个假设也不是完全正确的，但这个模型其实挺不错的，因此算法操作，比较，这一类的事情，我们在这个特定的模型中都假设是基本的,操作，花费的时间是恒定相同的。

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