I work part-time. When the girls were small, I worked from home.

我是做兼职工作。当女儿还小的时候，我在家里工作。

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Peter the Great was a huge sort of power-forward-sized guy at a time when people were very small.

在那个民众极端渺小的时代,彼得大帝却手握重权

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You know, my experience with this is, when you go from having a small number to a really large number of people, if you don't a process, it becomes real chaos.

我的经验是，公司的员工由很少,增长到很多，如果没有一个程序，很容易乱套。

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But when you go to restaurants or people buy steaks you just don't see anything that small, and so the serving sizes are multiples of what might be typical.

但当人们去餐馆或者买牛排的时候,不会看见这么小的肉,所以我们生活中的份量是正常大小的几倍

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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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And so now when I have the list here, let's see, yours is facing this way, so small is gonna be here large is gonna be here.

现在有了这个序列，你们是面向这边的，那小的放这边，大的放这边。

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The second question I want to ask is what's the base case? When do I get down to a problem that's small enough that it's basically trivial to solve? Here it was lists of size one. I could have stopped at lists of size two right. That's an easy comparison.

第二个问题是什么是基础条件？,我要将问题分解到何时才使得问题,小到可以解决的基本问题？,这里是当列表的长度为1有时候,我也可以在长度为2的时候停止分解,那是一个非常简单的对比。

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He had extremely small hands, very small feet, which meant he sort of lurched and stumbled sometimes when he walked, particularly because he drank enormous quantities.

他的手和脚却十分小,这意味着他走路时可能有些蹒跚,在他豪饮之后更是如此

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