It happens to be better suited for manipulating strings than numbers, for example, but it's really a general-purpose language.

例如它恰好,处理字符串,比处理数字更有效率，但是它确实是一种面向面很广的语言。

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She lives in Williamsburg, so it was one subway stop for her. I met her there.

她住在威廉斯堡，离这儿有一站地的距离。我在那儿和她见了面。

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I need you tear not the page out; I need you to tear this phone book in half in front of 500 of your peers.

我不是要你仅仅撕下来那一页;,我要你当着500位同学的面,把整个电话薄撕成两半。

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Now if you lived in a culture where the only meat that got served was the size of a deck of cards, and the only pasta that got served was the size of a tennis ball, there wouldn't be such problems, but that's not the case.

如果我们生活在一个,肉类每日摄入量是一副牌大小,或者意大利面只有网球大小的环境中,问题就不会存在,可惜这不是现实

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They took a crystal, this is a single crystal of nickel that has regular planes of atoms, and those planes are spaced on the order of an angstrom or less apart, and they irradiated this with x-rays.

他们取了个晶体,一个具有规则原子平面的，镍晶体,这些面间距差不多也是一埃或者更少，它们放射出X射线。

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