"He was a guy who tried to get people to work on their own behalf, to get things done and to try to have everybody contribute,"

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Right, having done that, we can certainly get to more complicated things, so for example, suppose I look at that expression.

好，说完了这一点，我们就可以讲些复杂些的话题了，例如，假设我看到了这个表达式。

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but I think Londoners just want things to get done now.

但是，我想现在伦敦人只是想把事情做好了。

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I stress it in particular because I know you're all going to get into this stage; you've got a problem set due in a couple of hours, you're still writing the code, you don't want to waste time, and I'm going to use quotes on "waste time", doing those extra things to do the defensive programming, you just want to get the darn thing done.

我特别强调了这一点,因为我知道你们都会慢慢成为程序员;,你在写代码过程中造成了一系列的错误，你还在写代码，你不想浪费时间，我想把“浪费时间“用引号圈起来，浪费时间来做因为防卫性程序设计，而带来的这些额外的事情,你只想赶紧把程序写完，这不是一个好习惯，因为当你做完回头。

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We just want things to get done, essentially.

本质上，我们只是想把事情做好。

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