Joseph was playing his last piece of music when a middle-aged man who looked excited stopped and put a 50-dollar banknote into the hat.

约瑟夫正在演奏最后一支曲子，这时一位看上去很兴奋的中年男子停下来，把一张50美元的钞票放进了帽子里。

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Then the wise man took a piece of paper and drew a straight line down the middle.

然后，智者拿出一张纸，在中间画了一条直线。

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The piece immediately shot to the top of the site's "Most E-mailed" list, where it hovered for days, along with an article about the latest conflict in the Middle East.

这篇文章登上了网站“最多邮件”排行榜的榜首，还呆了几天，它的表现和另一篇关于中东最近冲突的文章差不多。

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A doughnut is a round piece of fried dough with a hole in the middle or filled with cream or jelly.

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PROFESSOR: And so in this case, it's using the same piece, but it's returning that middle value that says they're actually the same.

教授：那么实际在这个例子中，我们用的是同一个函数，它返回了中间的值也就是,0来表明着两个参数。

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No one knows exactly where the tops are going to be, and where the bottoms are going to be, but the idea is to catch a piece in the middle.

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Lundqvist appeared to have a good view of the 50-foot slap shot from just in front of the middle of the blue line and got a piece of the puck, but it trickled by him.

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