They might very well be storing the addresses of memory elsewhere, but we just needed them as sort of a cheat sheet, a little address card to know where the original values x and y were.

它们存储在内存的其他地方是可以的,但是我们需要一个备忘单,一个地址卡，来知道,原始的值x和y是什么。

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It is the postal address of x and the postal address of y.

它是x的通讯地址，和y的通讯地址。

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