一厘米能被无穷尽地分为更小的单位。

A centimetre can be infinitely divided into smaller units.

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此外，岛屿栖息地的食物资源有限，因此更小的体型和对更少资源的需求会更有利。

Additionally, island habitats have limited food resources, a smaller body size and a need for fewer resources would thus be favored.

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即使是一个生态效率高得多的工业系统，如果它发展得更大，也会比更小、更不生态效率的经济产生更多的垃圾，破坏更多的栖息地和物种。

Even a vastly more ecoefficient industrial system could, were it to grow much larger, generate more total waste and destroy more habitat and species than would a smaller, less ecoefficient economy.

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And so this begs the question, even in the context of these cups, how can we possibly do better if at the end of the day in order to figure out if two cups or if two people or if two ints inside of an array are bigger or smaller than one another it feels like we have to do this comparison work anyway.

这样就回避了问题的实质,从这些杯子的相互关系来看，我们怎样才能更有效地,找出序列中比其他元素,都大或都小的两个杯子，两个人，两个数,看起来我们无论如何都得,做比较的工作。

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