Because we do try to give as much partial credit as possible in these exams, since there are a lot of places where small mistakes can result in the wrong answer.

因为我们会尽量把能给你的步骤分都给你,在对于这种考试时，因为有很多地方,只要出一点小问题就会导致最后结果出错。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

We just go to different places and buy something small.

我们只是去不同的地方，买些小东西来吃。

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So, I just wanted to give you an idea of just how small most of these places are as well as indicating sharp departures.

我在这里只是想告诉你们这些城邦有多小,以及城邦之间有多分散

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There are still some active smallpox virus specimens kept in the world, and there are two sources of small--two places where smallpox is stored now.

世界上仍有地方保存着,一些具有活性的天花病毒样本,有两个地方还储存着天花病毒样本

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You try to design actually I'm going to come back to that in a second. It's like you're trying to use a hash function that spread things out pretty evenly. But the places you store into in those lists may have to themselves have a small list in there, and when you go to check something, you may have to do a linear search through the elements in that list.

你尝试着去设计,实际上过会儿我会回头讲解这个问题,类似于你需要用一个哈希函数,非常平均的将物体分发出去,但是在列表中你数据,映射到的地方可能会有自己的一小段列表，当你回头查找数据的时候,你可能需要在那一小段列表中做线性查找。

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