It's deliberate that a lot of the examples in lecture are fairly short and bite-size so that you can actually focus on pulling out the key ideas without getting distracted by line and lines of code.

很多的演讲中的例子,是短小的,因此你们可以集中于提取其中的主要思想,而不是被一行行的代码给分心。

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So, that means he's got to make his line unless he comes up with some clever trick, the same size as the other guy.

所以,这意味着除非他想出别的好点子,否则他就必须使他那一排的规模,和对方的一样

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Taking the problem, recognizing that you know what, 8 even though this is a pretty big problem size 8 in this case and last time it was size 8 or in the case of the papers in size of a thousand roughly with the phonebook, I assume these are in a perfectly straight line they won't quite fit.

以这个问题为例，你们要认识到，在这种情况下，这是个比较大的问题，其大小是,上次它的大小也是8，但在纸片那个问题中,电话簿的规模大概是上千的，现在假设这些,杯子完全在同一条直线上，虽然并不十分符合这个条件。

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Let's imagine my army is the same size as theirs precisely, so that the line is the same size on both sides; therefore, also the same depth.

想象我们的军队和敌人有同样的规模,双方的每一排都具有同样的规模,当然,纵深也相同

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