You'd be wasting your time, wasting your money here, so don't do this if you find at the end of this you've got sixteen, seventeen, eighteen of these correct.

你是在浪费你的精力和金钱,所以如果发现你在小测验最后,已经能够答对百分之七八十,那就不要选这门课了

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And even though the syntax, the characters you are about to see on the screen and in programs today onward is a little more arcane, it's a little uglier looking, you've got semicolons and parentheses and fairly arcane syntax, realize that at the end of the day these are just arbitrary human conventions, the ideas are identical to this thing here.

可能你在屏幕上，编程中见识到的,语法，字符看起来非常晦涩难懂,甚至可以说是丑陋，像什么分号啊,括号啊等等，还有一些难七八糟的语法，但是到了最后，你会发现,这些都不过是一些人为约定而已，而蕴含在里面的编程思想跟这个例子并无二致。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well, realize one of the themes in this course and really one of the themes in programming and solving any problem with a machine is going to be really to just take small bites one at a time out of these problems until the end result ultimately is that you've actually bitten off a fairly large fairly interesting problem and in the aggregate, you've actually implemented something pretty sophisticated.

好吧，让我们先想一下这件事带给我们的主题,编程和解决问题的思想,一台机器最开始只会一步一个脚印,沿着要解决的问题向前迈进,直到最终的结果出来,最后你会发现，你已经解决了一个相当大,相当有趣的问题，而这个问题在最初看起来确是相当复杂的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And you'll find in the end that recursion is a feature of a language, it allows you to map some very obvious concepts like the phonebook tearing in half and half and half and half to actual code without it using some arbitrary human contrived framework like a for loop or a while loop which are much more stilted mechanisms.

最后你会发现递归是某种语言的一种特征,你可以用它将一些非常明显的思想,比如将电话簿划分为一半又一半,映射为实际代码，而不必使用那些人为框架,像for循环，while循环之类的,那是很呆板的机制。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选