When I call or invoke a function, think of it as creating a local table.

当我调用一个函数时，想象一下它是在这里创建了一个局部表。

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Well, because the memory we've been using for local variables, and for functions, storage space is what computer scientists generally call the stack.

好的，因为我们看到的内存是用于局部变量的，用于函数的，存储空间就是计算机科学家,通常说的堆。

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The local sheriff will call out the guys and restore order when there's trouble.

当有麻烦的时候,当地警官会召集人员,重整并恢复秩序

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And, again, the rectangle represents your computer's RAM, the bottom represents the part of RAM that we generally call the stack, main conceptually ends up on the bottom of the stack followed foo by its local variables then the function say foo that it calls and on and on and on and up, but there is, in fact, something above all of this and we've seen this picture briefly and that's this thing called the heap.

再次，矩形表示的是计算机内存，底端表示内存的一部分,通常我们把它叫做堆栈，main函数在,堆栈的底端，之后是,它的局部变量，然后是它调用的函数,等等等等，但是那里有，实际上，在这个上面，我们粗略看看这个图画,这个东西叫做堆。

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