Larger animals tend to use less energy per gram of body mass than smaller ones do, even at rest.

体型大的动物单位体重消耗的热量比体型小的动物更少，甚至在休息时也是如此。

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This might seem counterintuitive, but having one or two large scale pieces of furniture can actually trick the eye by making the rest of the furniture seem smaller.

这样貌似会跟直觉相反，可实际上有一两件大号家具，可以误导眼睛，让其他家具显得更小。

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Even at age 65, Thomas remains slightly smaller than the rest of his engine friends in the roundhouse.

甚至到65岁了，火车头托马斯仍显得比在火车调车房里的其他火车头略年轻些。

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But if, at any point, I get to a place in the list where the thing I'm looking for is smaller than the element in the list, I know everything else in the rest of the list has to be bigger than that, I don't have to bother looking anymore.

比当前位置数组的元素要小,我也就知道后面的数肯定,也都比我的目标数要大了，我就不用再继续进行下去了,这意味着目标数不在这个数组中，我就可以退出了。

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If it's there, I'm done, if not, I keep walking down, and I only stop when I get to a place where the element I'm looking for is smaller than the value in the list., in which case I know the rest of this is too big and I can stop.

并且保持遍历,我只在当当前位置的数组元素,大于目标数时停止,这意味着剩下的元素都比目标元素大，但是其他的情况,我还是要遍历完整个数组。

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