I mean, there is an emptying out of positive meaning in the very awareness that, after all, the red light could mean "go" I'm about to go on and give more examples.

这就事我们不能主动赋予符号意义,但是是要认识到，红灯也有表示，出发，的意思“,我会用更多例子来说明它。

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Similarly, just as we have symbols for the presence of sound and its length, we have symbols that represent the absence of sound.

类似的,既然我们有符号,来表示声音的频率和长度,我们也有表示静音的符号

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It'll allow us to use our notation and just be a little bit more nerdy.

我们接下来要用枯燥的符号表示了

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So v of t, v is the limit, and we use the symbol dx/dt for velocity.

点的速度等于一个极限,我们用符号dx/dt表示速度

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It may mean something different and this is sort of just stupid re-use of syntax although frankly it wouldn't really be much fun to have yet a symbol so they went with the same symbol which is pretty reasonable in the context *a of a function prototype this just means *a expect A to be the address of an int and expect B to be the address of an int.

这里的意思有点不同,这是为了重使用的目的,虽然这个符号没有什么意义,所以在函数原型中，他们就使用了相同的符号,这只是表示，期望,是一个int型的地址,期望b是一个int型的地址。

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Well, in music the most basic symbol for the beat is the quarter note.

音乐中表示拍的最基本符号是四分音符

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Again, I need notation for payoffs.

我们用符号来表示收益

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So in this course, I'll try and use "U" for utile, to be Player i's payoff.

在本课中,我用符号U来表示参与人的收益

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We talk in terms of high pitch and low pitch although we'll fine tune that next time, and then we have this idea of duration or time, which we tend to write out in symbols that move from your left to right.

我们是从高低方面来谈论音高,即使我们将于下次讲解曲调的问题,我们已经有了音符时值或时间的概念,我们倾向于用符号来表示,时间是从你的左边向右边移动的

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