So you have what are called escape characters like backslash N that is the shorthand notation of telling the computer put a new line character here.

幸亏我们有一些类似反斜杠n的转义字符,这只是一种简化方式,用来告知电脑要在这新添一行。

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If you want to escape certain characters, you need to use these so-called escape sequences.

如果你想与其他字符隔开，你就要用到所谓的转义字符。

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And then sometimes we'll see you need to escape even more useful characters.

有时我们需要你,用一些有实际意义的字符与其他字符隔开。

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