What that means, in a stored-program computer, is that I can provide to the computer a sequence of instructions describing the process I want it to execute.

它的意思就是说，我可以给一个存储程序计算机,提供一系列,描述我希望,能执行的过程的指令。

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And inside of the machine, and things we'll talk about, there is a process that will allow that sequence to be executed as described in that recipe, so it can behave like any thing that I can describe in one of those recipes.

在机器里面，还有我们要说的，里面有一个我们允许的,在方法中描述的,将要被执行的序列的过程，因此它可以像我在方法之中,描述的任意一种那样来表现。

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