So you're going to be able to take a description of a problem and map it into something computational.

因此你们能拣出,一个问题的主要描述,并将其编成计算性的东西。

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It's quite interesting and they became very proud. The parents came in. When they saw the map, "oh, this is where I come from".

这很有趣，孩子们也,深感自豪，当家长走进来看见地图后，他们会说：“喔，这是我的家乡“

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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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We've seen the price of oil, lately, move all over the map. It went up to $100 recently and it was just as late as late 1990s that it was under $20 and people just don't know where it's going to go.

我们都能看到现在石油的价格，一路飙升，最近达到每桶一百美元,而在上世纪九十年代末,每桶石油还不到二十美元0,人们根本无法预想石油价格,还会飙升到什么地步。

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If you look at your map you will see first on the west side, you've got a low coastal plain. It is about 20 or 30 miles wide.

如果看地图的话，你会首先在西端看到，你会看到地势低的海岸平原，大约20到30公里宽。

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Again, I want you to start seeing how to map the characteristics of the code- the characteristics of the algorithm, let's not call it the code-- to the complexity.

是算法中的那些特性,我们还是别说代码了，转化为复杂度-,我一会儿还会再讲点儿这个的，但是我们再看一个例子。

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