This is a strategy called double syntax, the notion that "in the Beginning" can modify one verb or the other.

这种手法叫做双关句，也就是,“太初“可同时修饰两个动词。

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The syntax is OK in the sense of, it is an operand, an operator, an operand, so syntactically it's OK.

这里的语法应该是好的，有个运算对象，一个运算符，另外一个运算对象，因此语法上是没错的。

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Now this is perhaps, frankly this is really the reason that people tend to get confused with the new piece of syntax because the * means different things in different contexts.

也许，这就是大家对这个新语法,混淆的原因,因为*的在不同的环境中有不同的意义。

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Music is a language and it is made up of a syntax, and syntax, you know, consists of phrases and the order in which those phrases occur.

音乐也是一种语言,由句法构成,而句法,你们知道的,就是乐句组合,以及这些乐句的组合顺序

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So, the final step in the story is syntax.

所以语言的最后一个成分便是语法了

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Well, you can implement this in a few different ways but here's one approach that uses some int counter=0 of the syntax we just looked at, int counter equals 0.

当然，你可以有好几种方法来实现这一目标,但是其中一种方法,只需要用到我们刚刚看到的那种语法。

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Syntax basically says, what are the legal expressions in this language?

语法也就是说，这个语言的合理表示是什么？

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Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.

这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。

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And even though the syntax, the characters you are about to see on the screen and in programs today onward is a little more arcane, it's a little uglier looking, you've got semicolons and parentheses and fairly arcane syntax, realize that at the end of the day these are just arbitrary human conventions, the ideas are identical to this thing here.

可能你在屏幕上，编程中见识到的,语法，字符看起来非常晦涩难懂,甚至可以说是丑陋，像什么分号啊,括号啊等等，还有一些难七八糟的语法，但是到了最后，你会发现,这些都不过是一些人为约定而已，而蕴含在里面的编程思想跟这个例子并无二致。

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You can actually declare in C synonyms using special syntax that says, you know what, even though yes at the end of the day I'm implementing false as a 0 and true as a 1, I can abstract away from that detail and use words that are more intuitive to me like true and false.

实际上，你可以用C语言中的特定的语法,你们懂得，虽然到最后,我把0当成假，1当成真来看，我们也可以从这些细节中抽象出来,使用像“真““假“这样更直观的词。

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