I couldn't make out how it had been done.

我原来还不明白这是怎么回事。

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"I cannot find out how to make more of this medicine," he said, "but you can have what's left I don't need it anymore.

“我不知道怎样弄来更多这种药，”他说，“但你可以吃我剩下的药，我不需要了。”

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I decided that categories would definitely make good folders, so next I had to figure out how categories themselves were accessed.

我判断肯定能够从类别构建出好的文件夹，因此下一步就必须大致了解类别本身是如何被访问的。

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I don't want to try to figure out how to make the characters behave later through animation.

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What you're much better at doing is saying how do I take the problem I've got and map it into a class of algorithms about which I know and use the efficiencies of those to try and figure out how to make it work.

当你碰到问题的时候,更好的方法是把遇到的问题映射,到已经设计好的算法中去,并用这些算法来提高效率,来保证问题得到解决。

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I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to make a living.

我在想我要怎样谋生。

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So I sat down and worked out not only how much I needed to make per month, but also per day and then per hour.

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Right now they're just trying to figure out, how do I make sure that if I lose my job, I'm still going to be able to make my mortgage payments.

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