But odds are it's not sufficient just to get it from the user, I, the human need to be handed whatever this function got from the user in some form.

如果只是从用户，我这里获取，好像有点不太准确，我们得交出,该函数从用户那里得到的一切信息。

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Then I started to think, "Is there any way that we can save the consumers' effort and integrate everything, every function, every application, every information needs that a user wishes into one box?"

于是我开始思考，有没有一种办法，使得消费者’,省下精力与时间，将所有功能，所有应用，所有信息，按照用户所希望的，整合到一个搜索框内？

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So when you have a function called GetString, -- that means it's going to get a string from the user -- -- prompt the user for a string -- whereas printf is literally going to print it, not to paper, but to the screen.

所以当你有一个叫做GetSting的函数，它的意思是从用户那获得一个字符串-,提示用户输入一个字符串-,然而printf的确是用来打印的，不是在纸上，而是在屏幕上。

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If you instead use GetString, same thing: blinking cursor, the function is just going to wait for the user to type a word, a sentence or whatever, and then hit Enter.

如果你用GetSring来代替它，同样的：闪烁光标，那个函数只是等待用户来,输入一个单词，一个句子什么的，然后敲回车。

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Odds are when this function called gets a string from the user by expecting them to manipulate their keyboard - with their fingers, I need to-- initiatively I'm gonna get back a sentence or a word or a phrase or something.

调用GetString获取的信息也有可能,是通过键盘敲进来的,东西-,它将会返回句子啊，单词啊,或词组啊等等一些信息。

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