"Even in a worst-case scenario accident, the sea provides a very high degree of dilution.

VOA: special.2011.03.16

And so you care-- you care about ultimately how much time is my algorithm gonna take to perform on that worst case running time.

因此你最终所关心的是,算法在最坏情况下需要多长的,运行时间。

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And the context of sorting, the worst case is your handed a problem that's in complete reverse order because that implies you have - to do as more work that could possibly-- that you could-- you have to do more work than you would of course if things were in perfect order.

在排序的环境中，最糟糕的情况是待排序的序列是,完全逆序的，在这种情况下,你不得不做更多的工作-,比起一个较理想顺序的序列,你必须花费更多的努力。

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So really at a worst-case scenario, with the volcano still going strongly, we could get airspace affected for the next few days."

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

N --O So we introduced this notation big O which generally refers to worst case.

的平方。，So，，N，squared。,这里我们介绍一个符号,它泛指最坏的情况。

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Worst case scenario - this thing could keep going on for 90 days."

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

In the worst-case scenario it could take six months or longer,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

An expert on nuclear proliferation at the RAND Corporation in the United States, Brian Jenkins,says because of its proximity to Somalia and its close ties to the West, Kenya is vulnerable to the worst-case scenario, where an al-Qaida terrorist unleashes a "dirty bomb" in Nairobi causing the death of thousands.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01