You saw that in the way he stood bobbing his head, always looking down, nodding like a young boxer to instructions to make you think he was listening to every word, throwing in a thousand "yes"es and "that's right."

你看他站着摇头晃脑的样子，总是朝下看，像年轻的拳击手听指令时一样,那样晃着脑袋，好让你觉得他在听你说的每个字，一边不断附和着“是““对“

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Programming in this context boils down to telling the computer what to do.

在该环境下,编程是给计算机发出指令。

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We execute that instruction, we move to the next one.

我们执行那个指令，我们继续下一轮。

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And those plans and commands descend down this spinal cord to drive the muscles in our arm, to guide the arm where we like it to go.

这些计划和指令沿着脊髓而下,驱动我们胳膊的肌肉，指挥我们的胳膊按意志活动。

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So in your mind, if you are now the computer program and you are executing this thing from top to bottom, what just has happened verbally is we are stepping into the line of code that says sort left half of elements.

在你们看来，如果你现在是计算机程序,正在从上到下执行一系列指令，刚才所发生的就是我们现在已执行到了这行代码,它告诉你要对左半部分的元素排序。

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