And, in fact, it kind of looks like a function, and yet here's a semicolon I just said that can get you into trouble, and yet that's not actually a function, because there's no interesting lines of code, because it turns out the interesting code is down here at the bottom.

实际上，它有点像一个函数，并且这里有一个能够使你陷入麻烦当中的分号,那个事实上也不是一个函数，因为这里没有有用的代码，因为,有用的代码都在底端。

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But we'll soon see when the commands you need to type become longer and more complicated, they just become annoying to type and annoying to remember so make generally automates this process for us.

等下我们将体会到，当我们要键入的命令是,很长，很复杂的时候，要键入它们就变得比较麻烦，并且也很难记忆,所以make通常使这个过程自动化。

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