我一直在等你亲自问我这个问题，而你对此一直迟钝缓慢。

I've been waiting for you to ask me the question yourself, and you're being obtuse and slow about it.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

当她问我这个问题时，我很惊讶。

I was surprised when she asked me this.

youdao

当她现在问我这个问题时，我吓了一跳。

I was shocked when she asked me this now.

youdao

And the obvious question I could start with is, and suppose I ask you, how long does the algorithm implemented by this program take to run?

我开始这个话题的第一个问题是，假设我问你，由这个算法实现的程序大概,要运行多久才能给出答案？

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Yes. I'm glad you actually asked me about that because, as I said it, I realized it wasn't quite right.

很好,非常高兴你能问我这个问题,因为我之前说过这话,但我认识到这话是不对的

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I'll let you chase it through, it does work. What I want to look at is, what's the order of growth here?

我会让你们去运行这个方法的，确实能得到正确答案，我想问的是，这个解决问题的方法的增长率是什么？

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