And I'm going to show you an example in a 1 second, just to drive this home, but notice the characteristics. In the first two cases, the problem reduced by 1 at each step.

在前面两个例子里,每一部问题的规模缩小了,不管是迭代的还是递归的，这表明这个问题的复杂性可能是线性的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He goes back and redoes the calculation, only in this case he says what I am going to do is I am going to redo the calculation for helium, but I am going to consider not just the mass of the electron but the reduced mass of the system.

他回去重新做了计算，仅在这种情况下他才会说说我将要,为氦重做计算，但我认为,不只是电子的质量,还有系统质量的减少量。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But in one step, I've reduced this problem in half.

我就将这个问题的规模减半了，我不仅仅是缩小了问题的规模。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The idea is that if you spread risks they don't disappear, they're still there, but they're spread out over many people and the impact on any one person is reduced.

这种观念就是说如果你把风险分散...,风险仍然存在,并没有消失,但如果风险分散到许多人身上,那每一个人受到风险的冲击就会减少

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The CDC can buy this from the manufacturer for a lower price, and when you hear about government organizations distributing vaccines to different parts of the world, they're buying at a reduced rate but it's still not inexpensive.

疾控中心可以从工厂拿到较低价格的疫苗,当你听到,政府组织向世界各地,分发派送疫苗时,他们确实给的是折扣价,但却并不那么廉价

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The opening chapters of Leviathan, which I have only assigned a few, but the opening chapters present a kind of political physics where human beings are reduced to body and the body is further reduced to so much matter and motion.

利维坦》的开头几章，我只给你们布置了一些，开头几章呈现出,一种政治性的物理学,人类被缩小到身体,而身体继续被缩小到,大量物质和运动。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选