But there's actually hidden in there an important element, and that is, when I create an instance, I have to be able to get access to the things that characterize that instance.

也就是，当我创建了一个实例,我应该能够获得那些特性化，这个实例的东西，我的意思不是说它们是想法,或者情绪之类的。

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So you can access the values of the specific instance.

现在，这还是有差别的,我为什么要这么做呢？

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I think of data hiding as basically saying, one can only access instance values, or, we'll call them that, instance values through defined methods.

一个人仅仅可以访问实例变量，或者，我们可以这么来说，通过定义好的方法，来访问实例的变量。

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And then it needs to have access to that, so it calls it, passing in self as the pointer to the instance.

把self作为指向这个实例的，指针传了进去，也就是，它的意思是现在。

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