He spoke through an interpreter. "Not only is our country worried, but we have already expressed time and again our position against an arms race.

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So the interpreter is simply operating directly on your code at run time.

因此解释器在运行程序的时候,会直接的对你的代码进行操作。

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Which is, and we're going to do some examples of this, initially we just typed in expressions Python into the interpreter; that is,directly into Python And as I suggested last time, the interpreter is actually a program inside of the machine that is basically following the rules we're describing here to deduce the value and print it up.

也就是，我们将会对这一点讲解一些例子，一开始我们只是简单的把表达式输入,到解释器里面去，也就是直接传给,我上次跟大家讲过，解释器实际上是,机器内置的,按照我们描述的规则,来推算出结果值并把值显示出来的一个东西。

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