The question that most fascinates him, however, isn't how the Egyptians who designed and built the pyramid got it wrong 4,500 years ago, but how they got it so close to perfect.

然而，最吸引他的问题不是设计和建造金字塔的埃及人在4500年前是如何出错的，而是他们是如何做到如此接近完美的。

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Try to estimate how many steps it will take to get to a close object.

估计一下需要多少步才能到达一个近距目标。

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"How close should we get to it?" he asked.

“我们应该走到多么靠近呢？”他问道。

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That is,he asked his accountant to take a close look at the finances of my company and decide how much it was worth.

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So this isn't-- OK. And you're also close. It's going to be linear but how many times do I go through this?

每次能丢掉一半，所以这里不是-,好的，但你也很接近了,他可能是线性的，但我得遍历多少次呢？

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It's not--It's actually close to how linguists describe normal languages, but it's very simple.

这个例子和语言学家所描述的,正常语言非常接近,但却很简单

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But they also depend on how far away it is, how fast it is drifting by, and how close it is to the line of sight.

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It's not something we've covered too closely to date, but there's no doubt about how close to him it strikes: a California appeals court decided against Apple today in the company's bid to force bloggers to turn over sources who leaked information about the Apple product codenamed " Asteroid" way in 2004 (remember that?).

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Generally I found this Open highly enjoyable owing to how close it was.

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