Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them.

求职面试、选举投票、议言或参加议等诸多名单，也是按字母表顺排，当人们费劲地向下查看时，兴趣随之索然。

It's the sequencing and it's the scope.

是排和范围。

Okay, Question one, Rank the following aspects of Sheldon Cooper in order of appeal, Intelligence; ruthless attention to hygiene; playfulness; JAVA applet writing?

好，问题1， 按吸引力度给谢尔顿? 库泊以下各方面排，聪明，洁癖，有趣，Java写者？

Around 2,000 years ago, the five cereals were namely rice, broomcorn millet, millet, wheat, and beans.

大约两千年前五谷的排为稻，黍，粽，麦，菽。

By contrast, with ranked-choice voting, candidates must receive majority support to win an election.

相比之下，在排选择投票中，候选人必须获得多数支持才能赢得选举。

Oh, and proper hierarchy is restored. Mm-hmm.

如此一来才是正确的等级排嘛。

Determining species and age, though, is slow and laborious. DNA must be sequenced. Bodies must be dissected under microscopes.

虽然确定种类、年龄慢且费劲。DNA必须要进行排。必须在显微镜下对尸体进行解剖。

Well it happened in 2005, we ended up going to the Greek Alphabet.

我们在2005年，我们开始按照希腊字母表排。

And we take the keyword and match it against web pages and rank them based on over 200 signals, things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how other people are using it.

我们将这些关键词和网站匹配起来，然后根据超过两百个搜索点对他们进行排，像是相关性、新鲜度、受欢迎度以及其他人是如何使用它的。

Hour after hour, these small packages flow into his tidal wave of sorting that now has to take place to ensure these little packages end up in the right destination.

一个又一个小时，这些小包装流入他的分拣排流，在必须执行，以确保这些小包裹最终到达正确的目的地。

The more important you are, the higher in the pecking order you are.

你越重要，你在等级排中的位置就越高。

Maybe it should compare the size of two numbers or order numbers by increasing size.

或许它能比较两个数的大小，或将数字进行正排。

Cal provides a hierarchy for prioritizing them, where readings that make an argument take precedence over descriptions of events or people, which in turn are more important than anything that provides context – like press clippings or speeches.

卡尔为我们提供了一种按优先级排的层次结构，在这种结构中，对提出论点的解读优先于对事件或人物的描述，而后者又比整个来龙去脉（如新闻剪报或演讲）更重要。

Put these questions and answers in order to make a conversation.

给这些问题和答案排组成一个对话。

We've include built-in support for SteamVR's compositor tracepoints within the Metal system trace.

我们在 Metal 系统跟踪里内置了对于 SteamVR 的排器跟踪点的支持。

Plus, come on, you've felt feelings like it before, sort of in miniature.

另外，来吧，你觉得喜欢它的感情之前，排的缩影。

That's why QuickSort is one of the most efficient strategies used by programmers today.

这也使得“快速排”成为中最高效的排方法之一。

Is this a vlog? I don't know! I'd probably just make videos of me hanging out with friends, or ranking video game characters, or testing out this drink I made that turns me into a mecha Blocko? ...

这是一个视频博客吗？我不知道！我可能把我和朋友们出去玩的视频录下来，或者是给电子游戏中的角色排，或者是测试我做的这款让我变成机械Blocko的饮料。

A long to-do list, even one sorted by priorities, can still be overwhelming.

即使按优先级排，冗长的待办事项清单仍然让人不知所措。

And what happens if we go through all of the storm names, well, it happened in 2005 we ended up going to the Greek Alphabet.

如果我们用完了所有风暴的名字什么呢，那是2005年的时候，我们开始按照希腊字母表排。