"One of the programming problems was try to figure out how to break an arbitrary chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

STUDENT: No. Not unless he wants to break the vase into little pieces and stuff it in the corners.

学生：【听不见】,教授：不，除非它想把花瓶打成碎片,然后把它们堆到角落里。

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and movies that are also trying to make break out into other festival circuits,

这些电影也正努力地打入其他电影节，

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"You know,I never came into these Olympic Games trying to break records or trying to tie any medal count.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

But it is a very handy way of thinking about, not just how to program, but how to break problems down into nice sized chunks.

但是它确实是一种很方便的思考方式，不仅仅限于编程序,在将程序分解为小部分时也很有用。

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"You don't have to do all of your exercise in one setting. You could break a 30 minute per day recommendation into three 10 minute bouts of exercise."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

As long as it's reversible, you know what the efficiency has to be, and in principle, you could break it down into a bunch of steps that you could formulate as isothermal and adiabatic.

只要这个循环过程是可逆的，你们知道效率是多少，从理论上说，可以将总过程,分解成一系列绝热,和等温的小过程。

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In recent weeks, hundreds of Muscovites have been strapping blue buckets to the roofs of their cars to mock the flashing blue lights that allow senior bureaucrats to drive into oncoming traffic and break the rules that everyone else has to obey.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Now I am going to break this into elementary steps and look at the relative contributions.

我会把这整个变化过程化为几个基本的步骤,去考察每一步的变化量。

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Here is the five dollars, we're going to tear this into nine pieces, except I'd get arrested and deported if I did that, so we're going to find a way to break this into change later.

这是5美元,我要把它撕成9份,但我会为此被捕然后被驱逐出境的,所以待会儿我会想办法把它换成零钱

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Our goal is to take problems and break them down into these computational steps, these sequence of instructions that'll allow us to capture that process.

我们的目标是得到问题,然后将问题分解为这些计算步骤，这些指令集,可以让我们看到这个过程。

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or at least one mechanism, I shouldn't say -- the only one-- one mechanism for doing that is going to be to add functions is that it's going to provide both of these things, so the first thing it's going to do is, it's going to let us break up into modules.

我们处理这些的机制--至少一种机制,我不会说只有一种,一种机制是在我们的语言中增加函数,函数的关键是它要提供分解和抽象,所以第一件要做的事，就是将代码分解为模块。

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I have used divide and conquer, as we seen before, to recursively break it into smaller problems. But the smaller problem of fib of 4 and the smaller problem of fib of 3 overlap with each other.

正如我们之前看到的，我已经进行了划分,并且递归性的把它分解为更小的问题,但是fib的简化问题,和fib的简化问题会相互重叠。

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