So, this observation is equivalent to saying that there must be something that is path independent.

这个表述相当于说,一定存在某个物理量是与路径无关的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

So Selection Sort, while it might be easier perhaps to think through than Bubble Sort, or maybe it's pretty much equivalent, it's just a different approach to the same problem.

因此，仔细想想，选择排序也许比,冒泡排序更简单，或者这两者都差不多，只是对同一问题的不同方法而已。

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So every gesture of the hand is going to be the equivalent of a quarter note.

那么,每个手部的动作,都相当于一个四分音符

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If these 8 million people , would correspond to the number of neurons in the brain, the equivalent of the hair cells that you could get out of a single cochlea would be equivalent to one person walking down 42nd street.

如果这八百万人,相当于大脑中的神经元数量的话，能从一个耳蜗内取出的毛细胞,就好比是,第42大街上的某位行人。

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