Children make grammatical mistakes all the time but then they go away and they go away without correction.

儿童们总是会犯些语法错误,但随后这些错误无需纠正也都消失了

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So, and this is where, again, things get sort of unnecessarily complicated just because of the syntax.

那么，这是哪里，因为这些语法,东西有点难懂。

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And, as we said before, music has a syntax so that these phrases have to be in a-- arranged in a particular way that makes sense.

就如我们曾经提到的,音乐具有语法,这些乐句必须,以特有方式排列,才有意义

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Now this is--;So, these are constraints on grammar and they're really interesting because they tell us what's a humanly natural language versus what's not a humanly natural language.

这些就是语法的不足,它们很有意思,因为它们可以告诉我们,什么是人类的自然语言,什么不是人类的自然语言

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Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.

这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。

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Alright, so maybe a little underwhelming and we saw already what this program is going to do but let's just go through this process once before we start doing more interesting things and then we'll come back and at least give you a hint of what some of these syntactic details are doing.

好吧，这个程序也许太平庸了，让人印象不够深刻,我们也知道这个程序是干嘛的,在我们开始更有意思的事情之前,让我们再来讨论一下整个过程后再回来,这些语法细节到底是在做什么呢？,先给你们一点小小的提示。

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So it's these little differences that you'll very quickly acclimate to but it's these stupid little syntactic details that trips off, especially those less comfortable early on because if you leave out a single character, namely that semicolon on the right hand side, nothing will work.

你会很快适应这些,微小的区别,但我们正是要把这些罗里吧嗦的语法细节,尤其是那些让人非常头大的句子啃下来才行,因为如果我们一旦遗漏掉某个符号，譬如一个分号,从另一方面看来，很有可能什么都工作不了。

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Those are examples from syntax, but language has many structures.

这些例子都是从语法上来说的,但语言却是有很多结构的

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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。

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