I would be grateful if you would wait until that point if at all you possibly can. It just makes the whole thing work a little easier and it prevents that drop in the pit of my stomach when I see half of the class leave.

我将感激不尽,这样会好一点,以免我看到半数人走掉时,心情会受到影响。

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If I look for, say, minus 1, you might go, gee, wait a minute, if I was just doing linear search, I would've known right away that minus one wasn't in this list, because it's sorted and it's smaller than the first elements.

如果我要查找-1，你可能要怒了，呵呵，等一等，如果我用的是线性查找，我不会知道-1不在这个列表中,但是列表是排好序的,1又比第一个元素小。

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