That program counter points to some location in memory typically to the first instruction in the sequence.

程序计数器指示存储器当中的某些位置,尤其是指示序列中的第一个指令。

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Having executed this instruction, that counter goes up by one and we move to the next one.

执行过这个指令之后，计数器升了一级,于是我们开始下一次的运算。

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