Note that my process wasn't this linear. In fact it was quite messy, sometimes moving two steps forward and one step back.

请注意我经历的这个过程并非那么清楚明了，事实上，这个过程相当混乱，有时候前进两步，有时候又退后一步。

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Multiple optimal solutions to the linear programming problem by the simplex method for specific feasible regions sometimes might lead to a loss of efficiency.

用单纯形法求解线性规划问题的多最优解，对一类特殊的可行域，有时会导致失效。

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And, even if they are not, maybe sometimes you can approximate them by linear formulas.

如果是不相关的，你们可以，用线性方程近似地表示它们。

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Sometimes they challenge and contradict one another, but they are not best seen as linear, as telling a neat, linear story about Israelite religion flowering and fading.

有时候它们相互对质或矛盾，但它们从未被当作线性结构，整洁有序的故事,关于以色列宗教的兴盛与衰落。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The story follows a linear, though sometimes thicketed, path, moving forward rather than in its own orbit.

NPR: First Listen: James Blackshaw, 'All Is Falling'

Sometimes I get the feeling that this linear route was designed with a single purpose: to give the happy hiker a near-continuous view of the rocky African coast.

WSJ: Trekking in Otter Space