And so frequently what we try and do is, we take a new problem and map it onto an old problem so that we can use an old solution.

我们经常做的一件事就是，我们处理一个新问题时,把它归结为一个老问题,以便我们能采取老的解决方式。

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Selection sort too really reduces to a total number of comparisons because I'm again comparing the current smallest to the next thing I see, the next thing, so really a lot of these sorting algorithms boil down to comparisons and the numbers that you actually have to make.

选择排序也可归纳为总数的比较,因为要将当前最小者与下一个进行比较,接着再下一个，可见,很多排序算法都可归结为比较,以及需要比较的次数。

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If you can't hold your job down, you can't get the money Ultimately, most of the negative things on that list were instrumentally bad.

无法工作就赚不到钱,最终名单上多数消极的东西,都归结为坏的利用价值。

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Ruralness is often used to explain the distinctiveness of Southern writing and art and so on.

一般来说,乡村气息通常被归结为,南方文学艺术的特色

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But it really comes down to that curiosity about what's happening right now everywhere and really being the pulse of what's happening right now everywhere and being able to point to every single medium.

但它确实可以归结为,对世界正在发生的事情的好奇心,并且正在成为每个地方,正在发生的事情的脉搏,并且可以连接到,每个独立的媒体。

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Most of the good things on that list were instrumentally good.

名单上多数好的东西都归结为好的利用价值。

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