You can write programs that manipulate them.

你可以写程序去操作它。

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Not trying to change or manipulate them.

不要试图改变或控制别人。

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And manipulate them in the interest of a higher truth.

而且操控他们那是为了符合更高的真理。

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And it's a topic I want to pick up on today, we're going to do for the next few lectures, and it's a topic I want to spend some time on because this idea of capturing data and methods, the term we're going to use for it, but data and functions that belong to that data, things that can be used to manipulate them, is a really powerful one.

我们会在今天讲这个话题,在后面几节课还会讲这个,这是个我愿意花点时间，在上面的话题因为这是个,捕获数据和方法的思想,我们用这个术语来形容它，数据中包括了数据和函数等，能用来操作它们的东西,真的是很强大的工具，我们真正要讲的东西是，我们要学会如何把信息。

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So, operands. Let us take expressions, get values out, we can store them away in places, but ultimately we want to do something with them, so we need to now start talking about what are the things we can do inside of Python, or any programming language, to manipulate them.

也就是运算对象，让我们看看这些表达式，然后看看里面的这些值，我们可以把他们存在计算机的任何位置中，最终目的还是要对这些值做一些操作，因此我们现在需要开始讨论,在Python里面可以做什么，来操作它们了，或者在任何编程语言里。

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Odds are when this function called gets a string from the user by expecting them to manipulate their keyboard - with their fingers, I need to-- initiatively I'm gonna get back a sentence or a word or a phrase or something.

调用GetString获取的信息也有可能,是通过键盘敲进来的,东西-,它将会返回句子啊，单词啊,或词组啊等等一些信息。

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The concern is that they might manipulate them but then so might anyone else.

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Puppeteers make the figures from leather or paper and manipulate them by means of rods to create the illusion of moving images.

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For example, he said, when Tepco cleans the inside of the reactor, it uses specialized equipment and robots, but humans must manipulate them remotely and inevitably they get closer to radioactive material.

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