So in your mind, if you are now the computer program and you are executing this thing from top to bottom, what just has happened verbally is we are stepping into the line of code that says sort left half of elements.

在你们看来，如果你现在是计算机程序,正在从上到下执行一系列指令，刚才所发生的就是我们现在已执行到了这行代码,它告诉你要对左半部分的元素排序。

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It's going down the left side of this.

从左半部分执行下去。

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I'll let you just grok it but you can see it's basically doing what I did over there. Setting up two indices for the two sub-list,it's just walking down, finding the smallest element, putting it into a new list. When it gets to the end of one of the lists, it skips to the next part, and only one of these two pieces will get called because only one of them is going to have things leftovers.

你们可以大体的浏览一下,但是它们基本就是我在那里所做的事情,为两个子列表设置了两个指针,指针顺着列表走下去，找到最小的元素,把它放入到一个新的列表中去,当它走到一个列表的尾部时,它会跳到下部分去,两部分中只有一个会被执行,因为只有一个会有元素剩余。

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