And so frequently what we try and do is, we take a new problem and map it onto an old problem so that we can use an old solution.

我们经常做的一件事就是，我们处理一个新问题时,把它归结为一个老问题,以便我们能采取老的解决方式。

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What you're much better at doing is saying how do I take the problem I've got and map it into a class of algorithms about which I know and use the efficiencies of those to try and figure out how to make it work.

当你碰到问题的时候,更好的方法是把遇到的问题映射,到已经设计好的算法中去,并用这些算法来提高效率,来保证问题得到解决。

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This by the way is the portrait of the world; It looks a lot like my map of the Ancient Near East, but it's not.

这也就是世界的图景;,就像我画的古代近东的地图，但它不是那样的。

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Framingham is a town halfway between Worcester and Boston and you see it more or less in the middle of the map right here.

弗明汉是在伍斯特和波士顿间的一个小镇,它差不多就在地图的正中间,这儿

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