You might be winded doing it the second way, but when you get to the top and you are at the 60th story your gravitational potential is independent of how you got there.

对于走路你可能很抓狂，但你一旦到了顶层,你就是在第60层,你的重力势能,与你如何到达那里无关。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

So it makes sense to be able to say, look for many methods I do want to have a way of doing comparison, and I don't have to remember, at top level, what the name of the comparison method was.

所有我需要的对象进行操作，那么就可以这么说了,我想要在很多方法里面，去找做比较的方法，我并不需要记住，每一个比较的方法的名字。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The sense of going back and forth, no one of us on top, not correspondent in a vertical way, how things going down there.

这种来来回回的感觉，没有人是在高处，也没人在低处。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There's a whole bunch of stuff at the top which is wrapping in an ugly way 'cause I've made my font so big.

顶部有一大堆封装好的东西,看起来很丑，因为我们的字体设置的很大。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Top-down processing is an example of when you know what something is you hear it that way.

举例来说,自上而下加工就是,当你知道某句话是什么的时候,你便会按照这句话去听

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The same is true in a general way of what we find in the royal palace up on top of the hill at Mycenae, and so what is perfectly clear is the people who ruled these places were enormously powerful, at least locally, and wealthy.

与这一事实吻合的是,我们在迈锡尼城山顶发现的皇家宫殿,可以确信,统治这些地方的人,在当地具有无上的权利和财富

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And the right way to do it is not starting at the top, it's starting at the bottom.

而且正确的迭代不是,从头开始而是从尾开始。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So, conceptually if you've ever wondered why you get access in all of your functions to global variables that's because they're not down here, they're at the very top of RAM and any function can access that RAM way up there, but for now the interesting player in the story is this thing called the heap.

所以，如果你想知道为什么全局变量能在,所有的函数中使用,那是因为它们不在这下面，而是在内存的顶端,那样任意函数都可以在内存中使用它们，现在，这里面一个有用的角色是,叫做堆的东西。

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