Now these ideas of classes, object-oriented programming, data abstraction, are about 40 years old, they're not new ideas.

面向对象编程的概念，数据抽象的概念，都是40年前就有的老东西了。

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I tend to prefer things that are more abstract.

我更喜欢抽象点的东西。

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Why this struggle, and why must Milton struggle with such awkward metaphysical categories in order simply to address properly the power of light?

为什么弥尔顿必须,与这样一个奇怪的抽象的东西斗争,仅仅是为了恰当的描述光明的力量？

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What we're really doing, or I shouldn't say what we're really doing, a basic piece of what we're doing, when we talk about classes or objects, is we're doing something that Professor Guttag mentioned, we're defining an abstract data type.

或者我不应该，说我们真正要做的，当我谈到类或者对象的时候，我们在做的基本的东西，如Guttag教授提到的,就是定义一个抽象数据类型，那么这到底是什么意思呢？

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an event or something more abstract like a thought.

对于一种活动，或者像想法一类更为抽象的东西，“is there”也可以胜任。

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