The polis is natural in the sense that it has grown out of smaller and lesser forms of human association.

城邦是自然的演变,因为它源自,较小单位形式的人类结合。

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But if, at any point, I get to a place in the list where the thing I'm looking for is smaller than the element in the list, I know everything else in the rest of the list has to be bigger than that, I don't have to bother looking anymore.

比当前位置数组的元素要小,我也就知道后面的数肯定,也都比我的目标数要大了，我就不用再继续进行下去了,这意味着目标数不在这个数组中，我就可以退出了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So specifically, what we're asking here is as we go across the periodic table, we want to consider which has the smaller ionization energy.

具体地说，我们这里要问的是,从周期表来看，你认为,哪一个元素的电离能更低。

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Norway has a much smaller population than the UK and they have a lot of oil up there in the North Sea.

挪威的人口比英国的要少得多,而且他们在北海拥有大量的石油。

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It looks a little something like that, and the screen doesn't quite do it justice here, Z but there's two alphabets; A through Z, and then A through Z, -- but the inner A through Z is on a small -- it has a smaller diameter; so it's a ring of letters.

它看起就像那样的东西，那个画面做的不是这么公正，这里有两个字母表，A到Z，然后A到，但是戒指内部的A到Z是在一个小直径的上面-,它有一个小的直径，所以它是一个有字母的戒指。

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He has it exactly right. OK? Is this smaller than that? No. Now that's a slight lie.

不，这是一个小谎言，抱歉,是一个小错误，如果我要这么说。

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