Montclin did not move. "You know as well as I do that it is no use to tell Athnaise anything,"

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So, if language seems exhausted because it's always preceding you, everything has always already been said, there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases, how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

所以，如果因语言，在你之前就存在，而它就显得枯竭，如果一切都已经被说过，如果已没有新的情节可供创造，如果世界一直充满陈腔旧调，你如何能够用它们,呈现出一个崭新的体验？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

to do sqrt, or square root-- no, I'm going to square root use sqrt, that's the name I'm using here-- square root a hundred different places in some piece of code. Without function, I'd have to copy that piece of code everywhere.

让我做一下准备,想象一下我要调用sqrt或者-,不，我会调用sqrt函数,这是我在这里用的名字，我得把这段代码到处复制。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So conceptually the key difference here, besides the syntax looking slightly different, it just means that if you want a chunk of code to execute no matter what initially, ; you can use the do while loop; if you want to check a condition first, you can use the while loop.

所以概念上，则关键的区别是，除了语法看起来有点不同，它的意思是如果你想要一段代码,最初无论如何都要执行，你就可以用do，while循环;,如果你想要先检查条件，你可以用while循环。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选