Well, it turns out on most computers an address of the location and memory, aka a pointer, is itself 32 bits.

好的，它是一个计算机内存地址,或者说一个指针，占32位。

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It turns out when we call string a string, we're really referring not to those characters but to the address, the location and memory of those characters.

当我说字符串时，我并不是指这些字符集,而是指地址，就是这些字符集在存储器中的位置。

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In other words, if you hand someone literally the street address of something, right, if you hand, let's say, if you hand someone the address of a house or a home that person can then literally go to that location and do whatever they want at that location.

换句话说，如果你传递的是街道地址什么的,对的，如果你传递的是，一个人的住宅的地址,那个人就可以到那个地址去,处理他想做的事情。

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This was the special value that said to the computer string stops here and because you have that barrier given to you at the end of every string, just the most efficient way you can pass strings around is just by passing the address of their very first bytes, the location in RAM.

这是一个特殊的值，表示的是,字符串在这里结束，因为在每个字符串的末尾,都有那个关卡，这是一个最有效率的方式，你可以通过传递,字符串的第一个字节的地址来传递一个字符串，地址是在RAM中的。

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