Not by some very arcane numeric address inside my computer's memory, but by a symbol, by a name.

不是通过一些在我电脑内存中的神秘的数字地址,而是通过一个符号，一个名字。

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So again immediately on first glance, a little more arcane, there are some distracting details, these curly braces, the semicolon, the quotation marks.

第一眼扫过去，是不是有点神秘，有点繁琐，还有一些莫名其妙的大括号，分号和引号呢。

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Now, if this all seems like arcane and irrelevant detail, let's just see why this matters in the picture, and then we'll leave soccer, at least for today.

如果你觉得这些听起来稀奇古怪,且它们与你毫不相干,那我们就来看看这个图像吧,以后我们不讨论足球了,至少今天是不会讨论了

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Again, pset one will walk you through this and you'll get familiar with this stuff, even though it looks a little arcane at first glance.

此外，习题集1将带你通过这个,你将熟悉这些东西，即使第一眼它看起来是比较晦涩的。

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So, long story short after this fairly arcane syntax, the end result is completely straightforward, do the following 10 times.

如此看来，这个长篇故事经过这个奇异的语法规则，简化后就立马简单明朗了许多，只需要重复做10次就OK了。

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- And so you can begin to express -- -- even though the language is a bit arcane -- your ideas in the same way that you might actually speak them.

所以你可以开始表达-,即使那个语言有点晦涩-,你的想法可以用同样的方式说出来。

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Normally the errors don't look this complicated but they still look fairly arcane.

一般来说，问题都不会很复杂,但是还是看起来有点神秘，不是吗？

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