In regular short-selling,traders borrow assets and sell them at a set price, hoping they can make a profit by buying them later at a lower price.

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So it's a short problem set, but make sure you know how to do those problems.

因此这是个小问题集,但是确保你懂怎么解决这些问题。

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Rhythm is simply these patterns, usually repeating patterns, of longs and short that get superimposed as they set up above the basic beat underneath.

节奏就是一些长短模式,通常是反复出现的,与下面的基本节拍叠加在一起

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In other words, set your sights high, knowing you will probably fall short.

换句话说即将目光放远，了解到你可能将会失败。

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It's reasonable because it's meant TMP for temporary purposes just to call it temp or T-M-P for short, X and I can define temp as -- why don't I set it as equal to X, initially, because now that I've stored X in a separate chunk of memory, I can now change its value and then I can say Y gets, not X, but temp, and so now I've actually swapped these values.

这是合理的，因为它是为,暂时的目的，只要叫它Temp或简称它为，我可以定义temp为--为什么我不把它设定为等于，最初的，因为现在我把X存储在一个单独的内存块中,我现在可以改变它的值，然后我说Y等于，不是X，而是temp，所以现在我交换这些值。

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