There were innumerable thieves, a gang of roughs tried several times to break things up, and police were everywhere.

那里的小偷多得数不清，有一帮暴徒几次试图破坏秩序，到处都是警察。

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Because when you change the code, you break things and introduce many bugs.

因为当你改变代码时，有可能破坏了一些东西并造成许多漏洞。

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Network delays are another reason to break things up into multiple threads.

网络延迟是将工作分解为多个线程另一个原因。

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"Hundreds of thousands of young people around the world can break through and make this a better world for all living things.

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What's the point of this? Again, now that I can think about things recursively, I can similarly break things down into simpler versions of the same problem. It could be one version.

这些的意思是什么呢？再一次我想说,我既然能够以递归的方式思考了,那么我就可以简单地把问题,转化为更简单的同类问题。

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That's what you need for a phalanx, because to maintain the integrity of the hoplite line, you can't have bumps and grooves, and trees and rivers in the way; it will break things up.

而是方阵作战所必备的条件,为了维持重装步兵队列的完整性,就不能在坑坑洼洼,有树林有河流的地方布阵,这会把方阵打散

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Kids are wild: They run around and spill stuff and fall and break things.

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Break things down to see more clearly where complexity presents more severe problems.

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The latter option has lead to something of a land rush of companies and individuals looking to break things wide open with an affordable, consumer-facing offering.

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