一个小数目–确切地说是5–已经很糟了。

A small number – five, to be exact – have been bad.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

新建房屋的数目是国家繁荣的一个有用指标。

The number of new houses being built is a good index of a country's prosperity.

《牛津词典》

18个人中5位女性是个小得可怜的数目。

Five women in a group of 18 people is a pathetically small number.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

We just want to get a rough idea so we can tell me they need to have another 20 or they need to have another 100.

我们只是想得出个大概的数目,这样我们就可以告诉他们,是还需要20本还是100本。

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Remember last time, I said that there's different kinds of complexity in our code, and I suggested for simple branching programs, the amount of time it takes to run that program is, in essence, bounded by the number of instructions, because you only execute each instruction at most once.

但是这里有个很重要的点,记得上节课，我提过在我们的代码中，有不同种类的复杂度，而且我还说了对于简单的分支程序,运行这种程序需要的总体时间,大体上，是和指令的数目相关的,因为每个指令只会被执行最多一次。

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For instance, bronze is allocated to different places for the manufacture of arrowheads or swords, with a note telling how many smiths in each place are active and how many are not.

举个例子,青铜分配到,不同地方用于制造箭头,或者刀剑,然而每个地方能劳动,和不能劳动的铁匠数目都有记录

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