想象一下，从阅读短至一两句话的文本，到努力去读整本用复杂的语言编写、观点晦涩难懂的书籍。

Imagine going from reading texts as short as one or two sentences to trying to read entire books written in complex language and containing sophisticated ideas.

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“这是一种晦涩难懂的交流方式，大部分都应该被废止，”她告诉我。

"It's an arcane means of communication, which for the most part should be abolished," she told me.

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这项判定把晦涩难懂的美国种族法律稍微解释清楚了一点点。

The ruling added a little clarity to America's incomprehensible racial laws.

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In fact, during this whole period playwrights were writing prologues to their plays abusing each other for being obscure that is to say, abusing each other for requiring interpretation.

事实上，当时,剧作家给别人的剧作写序言时,经常互相指责说对方的作品晦涩难懂,换言之，指责说对方的作品需要解读。

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And even though the syntax, the characters you are about to see on the screen and in programs today onward is a little more arcane, it's a little uglier looking, you've got semicolons and parentheses and fairly arcane syntax, realize that at the end of the day these are just arbitrary human conventions, the ideas are identical to this thing here.

可能你在屏幕上，编程中见识到的,语法，字符看起来非常晦涩难懂,甚至可以说是丑陋，像什么分号啊,括号啊等等，还有一些难七八糟的语法，但是到了最后，你会发现,这些都不过是一些人为约定而已，而蕴含在里面的编程思想跟这个例子并无二致。

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