Expect the address of an int but here in the context of the function itself inside the curly braces, it means go to that address.

一个整型数的地址，但是在函数,大括号中的环境中，意思是定位到那个地址。

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You can put a variable there, and because it's not encapsulated in curly braces, as we just discussed, that essentially means it's accessible everywhere in that file.

你可以加入一个变量，因为它不是封装在花括号里，就像我们刚才讨论的，本质的意思是它可以在文件的所有地方,都可以被访问到。

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So we have if, and that is followed by, I'm going to use angle braces here just to indicates something goes in here, some test followed by a colon.

那么我写了if，后面跟着，我这里会用一个角括号,来代表这里有些东西，冒号后面跟着一些测试。

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In fact, this example would compile because you can use curly braces in this way to encapsulate lines of code, but realize for now, that, not good.

实际上，这个例子可以编译,因为你可以用这种方式来压缩代码行,但是请认识到，那个，不太好。

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So if you do include it up top, the subsequent lines, even if you have these curly braces, are not, in fact, going to help you.

所以如果你在前面就包含它，后面的代码，即使你有这些花括号，实际上也没有用了。

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And so what I was hinting at earlier when you put semicolons in the wrong place, and then proceed to have curly braces around arbitrary lines of code, you're creating an even more local scope there, which is generally not the right intended behavior.

在之前我暗示了,当你把一个分号放在错误的地方时,然后开始用花括号,括上任意行的代码，你在那里创建了一个局部范围，那个不是故意的行为。

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As an aside, if you ever just have one line of code that you want to execute, one puzzle piece in Scratch terminology, ; you actually don't need the curly braces; you only need the curly braces if you have two or more lines of code that you want to execute if that condition is true.

此外，如果你只有一行代码,需要执行，在Scratch，术语中叫做,一句代码，你就不需要使用花括号了;,如果那个条件成立，你有两行或更多行的代码时需要执行时,你就需要花括号。

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