In that case, we understand it as a sequence of cross-sections rather than something that somehow organically changes through time.

这样，我们就是在学习一个个语言的横截面,而不是语言自然的变化过程。

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What that colon is saying is, I'm about to begin a sequence of instructions that I want to treat as a block.

这个冒号的意思是，下面的一系列的指令,要当做一整块来对待。

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Each of these suffers a sequence of shocks that cumulate over your lifetime, so inequality gets worse and worse as people age.

这些东西随着你的生命,不断经受冲击，所以随着人长大，不平等就越来越严重。

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And this embarrassing episode is just the beginning of a sequence of embarrassing events that will occur as the Israelites move from Egypt towards the land that's been promised to them.

这令人尴尬的一幕只是,一系列尴尬事件的开始,这些都将发生在他们从埃及到应许之地的路上。

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ArgV You can think of this variable Arg V as literally an array a sequence of chunks of memory that literally are back to back to back in memory, and when you say bracket zero, by convention, you are referring to the variables stored here.

你可以想象这个变量,按顺序排列的一块块内存,依次地在内存中紧邻着的，当你指明，按照惯例，涉及,存储的变量在这里。

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It's moving through a sequence of instructions, occasionally changing where we are as we move around.

它经过指令序列，在，我们移动的时候随机改变我们原本所处的位置。

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And inside of the machine, and things we'll talk about, there is a process that will allow that sequence to be executed as described in that recipe, so it can behave like any thing that I can describe in one of those recipes.

在机器里面，还有我们要说的，里面有一个我们允许的,在方法中描述的,将要被执行的序列的过程，因此它可以像我在方法之中,描述的任意一种那样来表现。

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Suppose instead, I want a machine that can take a recipe, the description of a sequence of steps, take that as its input, and then that machine will now act like what is described in that recipe.

假设换成这个，我想要一台可以安装描述，一系列步骤的结果的方法的机器，把那个当做输入设备，然后那台机器可以像方法中,描述的那样运行了。

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