It's a way of breaking the code up into modules. Modules that makes sense on their own. Modules that we can reuse in multiple places. Modules that, if you like, Isolate components of the process.

能将代码分解为模块,模块能够独自运作,我们能在很多地方再利用这些模块,如果你喜欢的话，模块可以被看作是过程独立的组成部分。

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And then in the intervening periods, they are on distant learning modules that the students complete.

其余时间，学生通过远程学习模式完成。

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And what I want to be talking about is modules of one sort, and of course that's because what we're interested in is modularity.

我想要说的是一种类型的模块,当然这是因为我们关注的是程序的可组合性,我们如何处理复杂程序呢？

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An alternative, though, is that there's separate modules, and this is a view developed, again, by Noam Chomsky, and also by the philosopher of mind Jerry Fodor, who claimed that the whole idea of a child developing as a single story is mistaken.

而另一种观点则认为是存在独立模块的,这个观点还是诺姆·乔姆斯基提出的,心灵哲学家杰瑞·福多尔,也同样提出过类似观点,这个观点认为,将儿童发展单独看待的整个观念,都是错误的

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I've listed a sequence of modules, the things that I want to do.

我先把我要做的事情，作为一系列的模块列了出来。

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