Crucially, at each level down in the cascade the virtual homunculi become a bit less clever, to a point where all it needs to do is, say, pick the larger of two numbers.

一过程的关键于，串联一起的每一次的子系统中，那虚拟侏儒会渐渐地变不再那么聪明，直至到达样一点为止。点上，需要那侏儒来做的全部事情就是两数字中选出大的那一。

Well, Nissan has finally got its act together in the U.S., and I think part of the problem was also that their version of the hybrid, it's called e-Power, it's a series hybrid.

好吧， 日产终于美国整顿好了局面，我认为问题的一部分也于他们版本的混动系统，叫做e-Power， 是一种串联式混动。