That quantity in parenthesis, I have a mass which is a positive number. Something raised Something raised to the fourth power has got to be positive.

顺便说一句,质量这个量是个正数,四次方的值,肯定是正数。

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In parenthesis now is a tilde which is shorthand notation for My Home Directory.

在圆括号里的,代表根目录。

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Everything inside the parenthesis is positive, so minus a positive number.

而其中间的一切,也是正数，所以正数的相反是负数。

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I get the int and store it in n. The switch statement takes inside its parenthesis an int or a char or some primitive type.

我得到一个整数并把它存储,到n中，switch语句的圆括号里可以是一个整数,或者一个字符或其他的基本类型。

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For some reason I had this backslash N, a close quote, parenthesis, semicolon, close curly brace.

由于某些必要原因，我们还得加上\n，后引号，圆括号，分号，后大括号。

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> You said you'd make a space between if and the parenthesis; does that actually matter?

>，你说你在if和括号之间用了个空格;,那有什么影响吗？

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Scratch The syntax actually looks reminiscent to Scratch, where you have a puzzle piece reminiscent of this shape, but you have to say "if" followed by a space, followed by in parenthesis, the Boolean expression that you want to check -- more on those in a moment.

这个语法看起来使人想起，那里有一个这种形状的程序块，但是你必须说明“if“后面跟着一个空格，跟着一个括号，一个你需要核对的布尔表达式,-还有更多的。

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And I don't quite remember from reading or from class how big these things are, well, it turns out -- and this is sometimes useful, later on more likely than now -- but C has a size of operator that takes an argument in parenthesis and it will tell you how much space is used to store that particular data type.

我不太记得类中的这些类型,是多大的，嗯，结果是--这个在以后比现在，可能是更有用的--不过C语言中有个sizeof的操作符,其中括号里有一个参数,它会告诉我们，要存储一个类型的数据,需要占用多大空间。

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