油轮未能对停止前进的指令做出反应。

The tanker failed to respond to a command to stop.

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烦请您依照我要发出的指令去做好吗？

Will you kindly obey the instructions I am about to give?

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它们同时也理解相反的指令。

They also understand opposite instructions.

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Why? Because that block identifies a set of things that I'm going to do if the test is true.

为什么呢？这是因为这一块指令,指定了一系列的要进行的操作,如果测试为真的话。

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Let me conclude by just pointing to another poem, a late poem, "Directive," a poem published in 1947.

让我们看看另一首诗来作为结尾吧，一首晚期的诗，1947年发表的“指令“

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Notice the difference. The recipe, the sequence of instructions, is actually getting read in, and it's treated just like data.

注意其中的差别，方法，也就是指令序列，其实是需要读的，被当做数据来对待。

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