Their first problem was crossing over a huge mountain.

他们第一个问题是翻越一座高山。

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In August, when she first realized she had a problem, she posted a message on a Yahoo Internet addiction group with the subject line: I have an Internet Addiction.

今年8月，当她第一次意识到自己有问题了的时候，她在雅虎的一个网瘾小组上贴出了一条信息，标题是：我有网瘾。

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Greece would not have such a problem with higher bond yields if it had not borrowed so much money in the first place.

如果希腊一开始就没有借入这么多资金，它就不会面临债券收益率上升的问题。

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Near the end of the first orbit, Glenn reported a problem.

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I first had a list of size 8, then 4, then 2, but then I had another problem of size 2.

首先是一个有8个元素的序列，接着变成了4个元素，接着2个元素，然后我就碰到了有2个元素的另一个问题。

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And I'm going to show you an example in a 1 second, just to drive this home, but notice the characteristics. In the first two cases, the problem reduced by 1 at each step.

在前面两个例子里,每一部问题的规模缩小了,不管是迭代的还是递归的，这表明这个问题的复杂性可能是线性的。

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Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

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But one thing any scientist will tell you is that to solve a problem you first have to identify the problem.

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Wallman's is a private-sector solution to a problem he first encountered as a regulator.

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