When I call or invoke a function, think of it as creating a local table.

当我调用一个函数时，想象一下它是在这里创建了一个局部表。

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For this sprite only, means local, only this function, only this script can use this variable, make this variable for all sprites, meant it was global.

对于只为一种精灵，意思是局部的，只有这个函数中，这个脚本中才可以用这个变量，这个变量为全部精灵而创建，意思是这个变量是全局的。

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So it's got an internal procedure,internal function, local to the unit test, that runs the simulation.

它有内部过程，内部函数，它对unit，test来说是有本地环境，来支持股票仿真程序的运行。

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And when you declare a variable, whether as an argument or as literally a local variable, they only live inside of that function.

当你声明一个变量，不论是一个参数,还是一个局部变量，它们只存在函数的内部。

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And, again, the rectangle represents your computer's RAM, the bottom represents the part of RAM that we generally call the stack, main conceptually ends up on the bottom of the stack followed foo by its local variables then the function say foo that it calls and on and on and on and up, but there is, in fact, something above all of this and we've seen this picture briefly and that's this thing called the heap.

再次，矩形表示的是计算机内存，底端表示内存的一部分,通常我们把它叫做堆栈，main函数在,堆栈的底端，之后是,它的局部变量，然后是它调用的函数,等等等等，但是那里有，实际上，在这个上面，我们粗略看看这个图画,这个东西叫做堆。

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