It floats quietly on the water, unable to sing sweet songs like most other birds.

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It floats around in Western civilization all the time.

这种冲突在从古至今一直在西方文明中飘荡

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Well I'm relying on the contract, if you like, that the manufacturer of square root put together, which is, if I know I'm giving it two floats, which I do because I make sure they're floats, the contract, if you like, of square root says I'll give you back a float.

好吧我能靠一些类似合约来保证，如果这么说你喜欢的话,其实就是当求平方根的方法,获得了两个我已经确认了是浮点数的数后,这个类似合约的东西就会保证，返回一个浮点数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Same thing with cmp, that's just saying greater than, and greater than now can apply to strings, it can apply to floats, it could apply to points, it could add other pieces into it.

是不是相等？,这跟cmp是一样的，这个只不过是说大于，大于现在可以应用于字符串，可以应用于浮点数，可以应用于点。

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