He is cutting the branch es with a pair of shears.

他正用一把大剪刀剪树枝。

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The boy sat in front of the farm-house, cutting the branch.

那男孩坐在农舍前，砍树枝。 （伴随）

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Today we tell you about some new understanding of why cutting the main branch of a plant or tree can lead to better development.

今天我们告诉你为什么修剪植物和树木的大支能够使之生长的更好的一些新的理解。

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Today we tell you about some new understanding of why cutting the main branch of a plant or tree can lead to better development.

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At each stage, no matter which branch, here or here, I take, I'm cutting down the length of the list that I'm searching in half. All right?

选的是这里还是那里,我总是把列表分成两半，对吧？,所以如果我处理一个长度为n的列表？

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With this, if I can assume that accessing the i'th element of a list is constant, then you can't see that the rest of that analysis looks just like the log analysis I did before, and each step, no matter which branch I'm taking, I'm cutting the problem down in half.

读取数组中的第i个元素,是个常量时间的操作的话，我也就能像以前那样得到,这个算法是对数级复杂度的分析,并且每一步不管我选择哪个区间，我都可以把问题的规模缩小一半。

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This is where all the business travellers stay and is part of a respected, though not exactly cutting-edge, chain - the branch in Peshawar has a famous sign: 'Please leave your guns in the lobby'.

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But a serious reallocation of resources on the railways would mean cutting lots of branch lines, and that is a task for a politician with the hide of Dr Beeching, not of Tony Blair.

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However, one of the most sweeping cost cutting actions comes from instructions directed by the judicial branch of government with a ruling from the Supreme Court on the overcrowding of prisons in California.

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