If you have a set of blocks, mechanical, physical blocks,and I tell you to build something and I say, oh, by the way, you have to cut the blocks in smaller pieces, you are going to get angry, aren't you?

如果你要一个区块，力学的，物理区块，我告诉你要去建造东西,我说，顺便说一下，你必须将一整区块切成小块，你会生气，不会吗？

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What that colon is saying is, I'm about to begin a sequence of instructions that I want to treat as a block.

这个冒号的意思是，下面的一系列的指令,要当做一整块来对待。

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Again, for those-- for whom this is blocked, I'm just dividing the rectangle into smaller squares which is to say that memory is addressable.

这是一整块的，我只是把它划分成一个个小区域,每个小区域都可以设定一个地址。

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I made them up out of whole cloth.

我相当于把它们从一整块布料中剪裁来。

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