De Man's point is a question is both rhetorical and grammatical, and the one cannot be reduced to the other. Both readings are available.

德曼想指出的是，一个问句既是修辞型问句又是语法型问句，那么一个不能变成另一个，两种理解都有效。

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And syntax uses another neat trick, this is defined by Wilhelm von Humboldt as the "Infinite use of finite media."

语法使用了另一种神奇的把戏,威廉·冯·洪堡,将之定义为"有限域的无限应用"

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See, to be honest even though it might feel like a whole of new stuff at once, it's a pretty small language and so we've almost seen all of the syntactic features thus far so now we'll be able to start focusing more on concepts.

瞧，即使它感觉好像一个新的东西,它是一种相当小的语言,我们迄今看到的几乎所有的语法特征,现在我们将把重点放在概念上。

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They create a language with rich syntax and morphology and phonology, terms that we'll understand in a few minutes.

他们用丰富的语法,语态和语音,创造出一种语言,我们马上会来讲这些术语的

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Well, you can implement this in a few different ways but here's one approach that uses some int counter=0 of the syntax we just looked at, int counter equals 0.

当然，你可以有好几种方法来实现这一目标,但是其中一种方法,只需要用到我们刚刚看到的那种语法。

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Pseudocode is kind of an English-like syntax that's just a useful way of expressing yourself fairly succinctly, fairly computer-like but without having to worry about stupid details like whether it's Java or C or whatever.

伪码是一种类似英语的语法,可以简洁地,表达自己的意思，它与电脑类似,但是你不用担心那些愚蠢的细节,比如Java，C语言或者其他什么语言。

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Well in C and other languages that we'll see this semester, you use what's called the for loop, and this as syntax isn't quite as straightforward but once you know what to look for, it's very easy to understand.

在C语言和一些我们这学期将要接触的编程语言中，你将会用到所谓的for循环，也许作为一种语法规则，它看起来不是那么的通俗易懂,但是你一旦知道曲中奥妙，就不难理解了。

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But if we know that 65 is the int that maps to the capital letter "A," we've already seen verbally that you can convert letters to numbers and numbers to letters, and so here's the syntax with which we'll soon be doing that.

如果我们知道65是个整型数，对应的是,大写字母“A“，我们已经口头地说明,我们可以把数字转换为字符，字符转化为数字，所以这里就是我们将要学习的一种语法。

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