It's just that other meanings are available, and since they're not on the same page, those two other meanings coexist painfully and irreducibly at odds, right?

它只是说其它意思也有可能，由于它们不是在同一水平线上，这两种其它意思,痛苦地共存着，同时又不可削减地矛盾着，对吧？

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And I don't... And I understand that the lottery, the odds are not very good of winning,

而且我也不是……我明白，中彩票的几率是相当渺小的，

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But odds are it's not sufficient just to get it from the user, I, the human need to be handed whatever this function got from the user in some form.

如果只是从用户，我这里获取，好像有点不太准确，我们得交出,该函数从用户那里得到的一切信息。

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If you're not updating some variable by incrementing it or decrementing it -- if you're not changing anything, presumably the conditions are never going to evaluate to false or the opposite, so you're just going to have an infinite loop, which might be your goal, but odds are it's not.

如果你不通过增加或减少它来改变一些变量,-如果你不改变什么，大概那个条件永远不会变成错误的,或相反的，所以你将得到一个无限循环，那可能是你的目标，但可能也不是。

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But whatever your reason for being here this is in fact our introduction to Computer Science; and contrary to what you might have heard or seen or perceived in high school, odds are computer science is not quite what you imagined it to be.

但是不管你们来这儿的原因是什么,这门课介绍的都是计算机科学,可能与你们平时听到的看到的,或者在高中时所想象的恰好相反,计算机技术的优势完全不是你想象的那样。

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