回想在本系列第一篇文章中的讨论，在希望使用多字节整数格式的时候，必须将第一个长度字节的最左边一位设置为1。

Recall from the discussion in the first article of this series that whenever I want to use multi-byte integer format, I must set the leftmost bit of the first length byte to 1.

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在最左端，一位妇女怀抱夭折的孩子，失声痛哭。

On the far left, a woman holds her dead child and howls in pain.

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在游廊的最左边，靠近一道门，却坐有一位将近三十岁的男子。

Close by a door at the extreme left of the veranda sat a man of about thirty.

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另一种方式来理解我们为什么放弃额外位是要记住，最左边的位低一些具有负面重量，在这种情况下，等于否定8。

Another way to understand why we discard that extra bit is to remember that the leftmost bit of the lower number possesses a negative weight, in this case equal to negative eight.

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另一种方式来理解我们为什么放弃额外位是要记住，最左边的位低一些具有负面重量，在这种情况下，等于否定8。

Another way to understand why we discard that extra bit is to remember that the leftmost bit of the lower number possesses a negative weight, in this case equal to negative eight.

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