Congress had to make a distinction between these and corporations and it's kind of a subtle distinction because there are lots of corporations that own real estate.

国会必须把它和公司区分开来,这种差别很微妙,因为很多公司也持有房地产

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If you want it to take a so-called argument or a parameter, there's a subtle semantic distinction between arguments and parameter, but for all intents and purposes, they're the same thing.

如果你想要你的函数携带参数或,参量，这里有一个微妙的语义差别在,参数和参量之中，但是为了所有的意图,和目的，他们作用是一样的。

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