You'll see both terms used on the web, and the literature etc., and think of them as synonyms.

然后把它们当做同义词，现在类的概念。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And we're going to use this object-oriented programming, typically to create something called data abstractions.

在接下来的几天,你会明白我们这里说的具体含义,它的一个同义词。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This is just a little inelegant and so one of the things we'll introduce early on is this idea of abstraction or design whereby if you wanna represent the ideas of 0 and 1, true or false, well, let's give them a synonym like true or false.

这么说有点粗野,我要接着讲的是这种抽象的思想,或者用这个来描绘设计出,真和假的思想，我们可以给真假各指定一个同义词。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I don't know, what would a synonym today be for honor?

我也不知道,现在荣誉的同义词是什么

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Well, in our culture, selfishness and immorality have essentially become synonymous.

在我们的文化中，自私和不道德成了同义词。

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