Somebody says, "What is a mare?" "Well, it's a female horse." "Well, it's a female horse" is the metalingual function.

有人问“什么是母马“，“母马就是雌性的马“,“母马就是雌性的马“这句话就是元语功能。

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Now what I'd like to do, every time I find a divisor I'd like to gather it together. So I'm going to create a tuple of one element, the value of i.

那么我就会去创建只包含一个元素的元组,也就是这个除数了,然后，啊，很好,这里是加法重载的一个很糟糕的应用。

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Notice that the relationship between the rhetorical is and the grammatical is is basically the relationship between what Jakobson calls the "poetic function" and the "metalingual function."

注意下,修辞学上的is和语法中的is之间的关系,基本上就是雅各布森所说的,“诗功能“和“元语言功能“之间的关系“

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All right. What does this have to do with my divisor example? This says I can make tuples, but imagine now going back to my divisor example and I want to gather up the elements as I go along. I ought to be able to do that by in fact just adding the pieces in.

这意味着我可以创建元组了,但是想像下回到我们的除数的例子,在处理过程中我们想把目标数的除数,收集起来，我应该能够通过把这些数,一个一个加进来来实现这个目的,我正是要去这么做，也就是。

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OK. And how do I create them? Well, the representation is, following a square bracket, followed by a sequence of elements, separated by commas, followed by a closed square bracket.

就是一个有序的序列，好，那么我们怎么创建元组呢？,好，表达式是，一个方括号，后面是一系列的元素，以逗号分开,以一个闭方括号结束，这就是我刚才所说的。

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b OK. In this example I'd use b. All right, as b get-- b is the thing that's changing as I go along here, but it could be things like, how many elements are there in a list if the input is a list, could be how many digits are there in a string if the input's a string, it could be the size of the integer as we go along. All right.?

好，在这个例子里我会用，因为b是一直在变的东西,但是也可能是如下情况：,如果输入是数组的话,变化的就是数组的元素数，如果输入是字符串的话,变化的就是字符串的长度，如果是integer的话,可能就是这个数的大小，对不对？

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