Where there are many languages in use, language comes to seem arbitrary rather than natural, ; as the product of convention; not as something you're simply born into but something that you learn, something that is made and that can be remade.

世界上有很多种语言在使用中，然而语言的运用却显得任意，而非自然而然的作为传统的产物;,不像是与生俱来的才能，而像后天学会的，像是某些创造再创造的事物。

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So, conceptually if you've ever wondered why you get access in all of your functions to global variables that's because they're not down here, they're at the very top of RAM and any function can access that RAM way up there, but for now the interesting player in the story is this thing called the heap.

所以，如果你想知道为什么全局变量能在,所有的函数中使用,那是因为它们不在这下面，而是在内存的顶端,那样任意函数都可以在内存中使用它们，现在，这里面一个有用的角色是,叫做堆的东西。

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I certainly don't want to assume they're always going to type a three-letter or a four-letter or a two-letter word I want some dynamism but that's fine because get string can get a string of any length, I can then use the string length function to just ask while the program is running how big is the string that I was handed?

当然我不能假设他总是,输入3个字符或4个字符,或2个字符的单词，我想要动态地分配,因为GetString可以获得任意长度的字符串，然后我可以使用strlen函数,来得到那个我传递的字符串,有多长？

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