To use an ancient expression from the 1970's, which only John and I will appreciate, it's really hard to grok what that code is doing, to understand what it's trying to make happen.

我和约翰都会同意，70年代的一句话来概括，那就是很难理解编码的内容，以及它想要完成的工作。

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I just want to remind you, if I wanted to, for example, type in an expression like that, notice the syntactical form, it's an expression, a number, followed by an operand, followed by another expression.

我想要提醒下大家，如果你想要，例如，输入一个这样的表达式，注意语法形式，这是个表达式，一个数字，后面是一个运算对象，后面是另外一个表达式。

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It's difficult to imagine that as an expression of genuine grief over the death of a genuinely close friend would take the form of a poem so learned, so filled with remote literary allusions and obscure opinions.

这首诗是为表达对挚友逝去的真挚悲痛,却采取了这样一种如此博学，如此充满,遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点的形式,这确实是难以想象的。

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When we're just interacting with idol, with the interactive editor or sorry, interactive environment if you like, that's what you expect. What's happening is that we're typing in something, an expression it doesn't know how to deal. It's raising the exception, but is this simply bubbling up at the top level saying you've got a problem.

就发生了其中之一是吧，当你在交互数据处理或者是在交互编辑器，抱歉，任何你喜欢的交互式环境中，你可能会遇到这些，如果你在输入什么内容,譬如一个它不知道怎么处理的表达式,它就会报一个异常,但这是否是简单的,把你遇到的问题冒到最顶层呢？

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