Even though we were doing in Japan, we're still doing language act, we're still doing writing.

即使我们是在看跟日本有关的书,仍然是在学习语言，和写作。

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Until you're a proficient reader of a language, writing in our language is a fool's errand.

你只有成为一个熟练的读者，才有可能成为一个好的作者。

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So when you're writing a program in this language and many others, if you wanna make a comment to yourself or for other people who are reading this with their TF or fellow colleagues, you use what are called comments.

当你用这样那样的语言写程序时,为了便于自己或他人,阅读我们写的代码，我们必须得做一些注解,这就是所谓的注释。

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Sometimes the basic unit is the phrase, but some other times the basic unit is the phoneme or if one's studying language as a system of writing it might be the syllable.

有时候基本单位是一个词组，有时候则是一个音素,也就是在写作的研究中的,一个音节。

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At the same time, I do mean to give you some sense of the period in which they're writing, some sense of modernism as a field, as one of the richest fields in English language writing.

同时，我也会给你们提供一些背景知识,来了解作者创作的年代，以及现代主义的思想领域，就其作为英语文学创作最丰富的领域之一而言。

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It's just this kind of rhetorical trick that Milton uses - so many rhetorical tricks like this that Milton will use throughout the poem -- that led Dr. Johnson to say in utter exasperation, but admiration, that "Milton wrote no language": this isn't English that Milton is writing here.

正是弥尔顿使用的这种修辞手法,-弥尔顿全诗使用了大量这样的修辞手法,-让约翰逊博士懊恼而又钦佩的说，“弥尔顿所写不是语言“,弥尔顿这里写的不是英语。

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So writing a program at least in this language is a two-step process.

用这种语言写一个至少需要,两步完成的小程序。

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The riff on the a in differance as all of those things is something that we can only pick up if we understand language as writing, because in speech these modes of difference don't register.

延异》中a的那一章的内容,我们只能通过看文字理解，因为在言语里我们无法区分这些差别。

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