The president has admitted as much, saying that sometimes the Nobel Prize is awarded not to honor a specific achievement, but to give momentum to a set of causes.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

When I call the class definition, that is I call c point, I'm going to call it with a specific set of arguments.

来创建实例的时候，也就是调用c，point的时候，我会以一个特定的参数集来调用它,然后将要发生的就是init将会被应用。

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But it's really a chance, especially for those less comfortable, to be set off on a very specific path.

这的确是一个机会，特别对于那些不怎么舒适的，这是通过,特殊途径开始的好机会。

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"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

And by that I mean, do the set of primitives support a broad range of applications, or is it really aimed at a very specific set of applications?

也就是说这个基本集合，是不是支持,比较多的程序，或者是不是面向,某一特定种类的程序的？

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