And to prepare himself, he went without sleep for long periods of time.

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But long story short, if I want to use a function called sleep, -- the reason I, the programmer, knew to use that library -- -- that header at the top -- because it told me to in this little synopsis.

但长话短说，如果我想要用一个叫做sleep的功能，我作为程序员知道使用那个函数库-,上面的标题-,因为在这个小的大纲中它告诉我。

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Her dog barks all night long and won't let me sleep.

她养的狗整夜整夜地叫唤，让我根本没法入睡。

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