But to translate this now to a language C, you've got some curly braces, you got an if, some parentheses, but now we're just building on some of the syntax we introduced before.

如果把它转换成C语言，你又会看到一些大括号啊，if啊，圆括号啊等等，我们只是借助,之前学过的语法规则。

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It's just some bogus language we made up that's kind of English-like, kind of look C-like now that you've seen this syntax, but it was just an arbitrary language.

并不是真正的编程语言,好比某种“伪英语“，或“类C语言“,你现在在语法中看到的就是所谓的伪代码，非常随意。

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