我偶然听见他说他要去法国。

I overheard him say he was going to France.

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我曾在法国住过；确切地说，离你要去的地方不远。

I used to live in France; in fact, not far from where you're going.

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我说过我要去只是为了让他高兴。

I said I'd go just to keep him happy.

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Whereas in the linear case, I make it ten times bigger, it takes ten times longer to run. OK.

它要占用原来十倍的时间去运行，我一直在说还有一件事情没有讲，这是我要强调的最后一件事。

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I can't go down to the registrar and say, you know, I'd really like to do it at another time.

我不能去和登记的人说，我想要换个时间。

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So it makes sense to be able to say, look for many methods I do want to have a way of doing comparison, and I don't have to remember, at top level, what the name of the comparison method was.

所有我需要的对象进行操作，那么就可以这么说了,我想要在很多方法里面，去找做比较的方法，我并不需要记住，每一个比较的方法的名字。

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