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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