They're interested, in other words, in the way a text is put together.

研究文本是怎样组合的。

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Put the same point the other way around: If I can imagine A without B, then A and B have to be logically distinct things.

把这点推而广之,如果我可以想象A在没有B的情况下存在,那么A和B在逻辑上是相互独立的

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So pictorially, it's as though there's now some other part of the blackboard here, maybe way up here where I can put anything I want that's accessible to main, that's accessible to swap, that's accessible to increment or any other function I might implement because it is, in fact, global.

绘画般地，它是在这里黑板上的其他部分,可能在这里的上面,我在哪里可以放置这些东西,使它们可以被main函数使用，可以被swap函数使用，可以被increment函数使用,或者我所实现的其它函数,因为它实际上是一个全局变量。

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