The simile pushes the size of the spear clean out of our rational comprehension, and it's this process that is, according to Stanley Fish, the point of the simile.

这个比喻对长矛的形容,大大超出了正常的理解范围，对斯坦利费什来说，这恰恰是表达这个比喻的目的的一个过程。

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Now this happens to be what we would call a linear process, because the number of times I go around the loop is directly related to the size of the argument. If I double 2 the argument, I'm going to double the number of times I go around the loop. If I increase it by five, 5 I'm going to increase by five the number of times I go around the loop.

这恰好是我们会成为,线性复杂度程序的一个例子,因为我要执行循环的次数是,和输入的参数的大小直接相关的,如果我将这个参数乘以,那么我就要将进行循环的次数也乘以2了，如果我把参数加上,那么循环的次数也要加上5了。

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