We must now start with solidarity for our side, which does not end in workshops and conferences, but ends in action geared specifically to increase the number of women in politics and in our delegations,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

Well, for a thing called main which itself is a function but a function I wrote, a tool I am writing at the moment not like printf which someone else wrote long ago, I have to say where does main start, where does main end, and I do that by using these curly braces.

至于这个名曰main的函数,由我们自己写的函数，也是一个工具,只不过由我们自己编写，而不是像printf那样已经由前人写好了,我们必须要说明main在哪开始，在哪结束，这样我们就要用到大括号了。

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