Threads are just like processes, only smaller.

线程和进程十分相似，不同的只是线程比进程小。

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I have chosen to ride up on horseback and the jeep delivers us to the savannah where we are met by dozens of crazy horsemen riding what appear to be greyhounds - like horses only smaller.

我选择骑马，吉普车把我们送到大草原上，在那里我看见几十个疯狂的马夫骑在“灰狗”上面——像是马，但是小许多。

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If Earth's orbit were only 5 percent smaller than it is, temperatures during the early stages of Earth's history would have been high enough to vaporize the oceans.

如果地球的轨道比现在小5%，那么地球历史早期的温度就足以使海洋蒸发。

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If you look at cancer, for example which is down here, only 3.7% of deaths, much smaller then the number today.

比如癌症,你可以在这下面看到,只占了3.7%,比现在少多了

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And there's only about 150 people in total, the entire program. So it's definitely smaller.

总共只有大概150人，整个项目就这些人。所以人数少很多。

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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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Wilby is also bullish on Asia, even finding a few opportunities in Japan, where for years only smaller-cap stocks as a group have stirred.

FORBES: Bargain bourses

World-weary French commentators sometimes maintain that only smaller, more homogenous countries, such as Ireland, Finland, Denmark or the Netherlands can reform.

ECONOMIST: European politics

As John Templeton and the dedicated (and often courageous) people in these endeavors know, these are microsteps toward a macrogoal: a planet that grows not only smaller but also better.

FORBES: Blue-Chip Investment