"And whatever tools I am given, I will use them to the best of my ability.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

I want the function, which is a little tool, a line of code I can include in my own programs and generally those tools live in sections two or three of the manual.

我想要一个函数，那是一个小工具，在我程序中可以包含的一行代码,通常这些工具在手册的第二节,或第三节。

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And henceforth I'm gonna start calling these tools, these monickers that I can use as building blocks in my own program, it's gonna be called a function as we'll see.

从此以后，我将在我的程序里把这些工具，称为我们可以用来写代码的组件,在我自己的程序中，我们将了解到它被叫做为一个函数。

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