They take those descriptions and the scientist that is known and they try to design new things, and so if you look at a dictionary it has words like this, that you're designing things or another way to say that is that you're trying to apply science, you're looking at applications.

他们利用已知的,科学原理和描述,来设计新东西,因此,如果你查字典时看到这样的词条,设计产品或者换句话说,试图应用科学原理,那么你看的这个词就是应用

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Now, unlike high school math or in algebra Z where you call things X and Y and Z, in programming, in computer science, you're actually dealing with humans where it's useful to have a variable name that's more descriptive than X and Y and Z.

不像高中数学或者代数中,称为X和Y和，在程序设计和计算机科学里，你实际上是在和人打交道,在这里有个描述性比xyz更强的,变量名称是很重要的。

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