For example, the compare method compares two strings; the sort and asort methods sort arrays or associative arrays in a way similar to the corresponding PHP array functions.

比如，compare方法比较两个字符串；sort和asort方法以与相应的php数组函数相同的方式对数组或关联数组进行排序。

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She was never without a pencil of some sort and, in her frugal way, used them until they were two-inch stubs, sharpening them carefully with a razor blade.

我母亲很节俭，不论什么样式的铅笔她总是把它们用到变成只有两英寸长的铅笔头，而且她总是用剃须刀片很仔细地削铅笔。

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This sort of contrast between the two boxes is a great way of setting visual precedence between elements.

这种两个方框的对比方式可以很好用来表现元素之间的视觉差异。

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In 2000, as it happened, I was already familiar, in a glancing sort of way, with a longitudinal study that followed the lives of two hundred and sixty-eight men who graduated from Harvard in the years around 1940.

NEWYORKER: Land of the Seven Moles