Now we know that, shortly after they hatch, ducklings fix on any object about the size of a duck and will henceforth follow it.

现在我们知道，小鸭子孵化后不久，它们就会固定在如鸭子大小的任何物体上，并从此跟随它。

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The ivory-billed woodpecker is not large, as birds go. It is about the size of a crow, but flashier.

象牙喙啄木鸟不像鸟那样大。它的大小和乌鸦差不多，但更华丽。

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It is a small six-legged herbivore called a peacock deer, about the size of a tapir.

它是一只小型六足草食动物，被称为孔雀鹿，大概有貘那么大。

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Then press it in your hand until it is about the size of an egg.

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And in the ancient world, the reason for this was that this very small rectangle--;it's about 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, about the size of Rhode Island--this very small rectangle lies on the way to anywhere worth going in the Ancient Near East.

在古代，战争的原因是,这小块矩形，长150公里，宽70公里，与罗德岛大小相当，这小块矩形处于要道,这条路通向古代近东的任何地区。

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And that's just a way of reminding you that we want to think carefully, but what are the things we're trying to measure when we talk about complexity here? It's both the size of the thing and how often are we going to use it? And there are some trade offs, but I still haven't said how I'm going to get an n log n sorting algorithm, and that's what I want to do today.

这只是在提醒你们我们要仔细的思考问题,但是当我们在讨论复杂性的时候,我们到底要衡量哪些东西？,是列表的大小和对其进行查找的频率吗？,这里面临一些取舍,但是我还没有说明,怎样得到一个n，log，n复杂度的排序算法,并且这是我今天想要讲的内容。

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It says it is simply determined to complete a "strategic review" of the condition of the military it inherited and the kinds of changes it requires before making judgments about the size and purposes for which any defense supplemental might be sought.

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The debate about the exact size of the patch is irrelevant (it is at the mercy of ocean currents and is constantly changing) and it risks diverting attention away from the far more serious implications of the pollution.

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The meteor was one yard in diameter, about the size of an exercise ball, when it entered the atmosphere over eastern Pennsylvania, said Cooke.

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