Data can be crammed much tighter on a CD than on a magnetic floppy or hard drive because a laser beam can be focused to a much smaller point than magnetic heads.

数据在光盘上的排列比在软盘或硬盘上更加紧密，原因是激光束可以比磁头聚焦到更小的点上。

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According to the requirements, the size of text in students' textbooks should be no smaller than nine-point.

根据要求，学生课本的文字大小应不小于9磅。

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Making the file smaller at this point is not really feasible as a long-term solution to the problem because the file will most likely need to be modified in the future.

从这一点上来说，将文件变得更小作为问题的一个长期解决方案是不可行的，因为文件很有可能在将来会被修改。

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But HEPA filters cannot remove disease-causing particles smaller than zero point three microns.

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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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OK, we're going to do this reversibly, which means we're going to slowly change the external pressure very, very slightly at a time, so that at every point we're basically in equilibrium, p2/ until the pressure reaches a new smaller pressure p2.

整个过程保持可逆，外界压强,变化得很慢，每一个瞬间,都保持平衡，直到压强减小到末态值。

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Or, let my mother-in-law download just her email at an even smaller price point.

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As smaller operators point the way, bigger companies may even begin to show some interest too.

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This benefit is especially valuable for smaller economies, a point that has not been lost on the Swedes.

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