It's going to let us bury away the specifics of something, and treat that computation like a black box. And by black box, I mean, literally behaves like a mysterious little black box.

通过抽象我们可以将一些细节,掩埋起来并将这一段计算当成黑盒,说到黑盒我的意思就是,字面上的像一个神秘的小黑盒。

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So in a town that's the size of new Haven with a population of let's say 100,000 people in just the immediate New Haven area, there might be 20 of these instances of very severe form of polio per year, 20 crippled children would result.

在一个像纽黑文这么大的城市里,大约有十万人口,生活在纽黑文地区的人当中,每年可能就会有二十人,感染到这种急性传染病,可能会导致二十个孩子残疾

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