We transition to actually real world applications later on like a compression-- how do you take a huge amount of data ; and actually whittle it down into something more manageable; something that uses less of your disk space.

然后我们会讲生活中的应用程序,比方说压缩文件——,把大量的数据分解使其更易管理;,并占用尽量少的磁盘空间。

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It's the various programs you run on your computer along with the various data files that you have saved on your hard drive,and so forth.

是你自身这个电脑中运行的各种程序,硬盘存有的各种数据和文件，类似种种。

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