That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone (using Caller ID would take the fun out of it).

也就是说，事实上唯一给我们家里打电话的人是我们婴儿潮世代的父母。所以我们会玩一个游戏，在拿起电话之前猜是谁在打电话（使用来电显示功能会让游戏失去乐趣）。

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In our example, we are never really calling into the service because of the provided extension point.

在我们的示例中，我们不会真正调用该服务，因为扩展点是假设的。

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This includes calling the entry-point function of all attached dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) with a value indicating that the process is detaching from the DLL.

包括调用所有链接到的动态链接库(DLL)的入口点函数，给出一个值，指出这个进程正在解除那个DLL的链接。

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I just doubled the indentation each time so you can see it. So each successive call, notice what's happening. The argument is getting reduced. And we're going another level in. When we get down to this point, we're calling it with just a string of length one.

因此每次成功调用注意它的过程,我们的命题不断简化，而且我们不断深入嵌套,当我们走到这一步的时候,我们就是在调用它处理，仅有一个元素的字符串了。

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