The commonality between them is that they all have a lot of implicit assumptions and implicit state that would have to be dealt with explicitly in a general-purpose programming language.

它们之间的共同点是：它们都具有许多隐式假设和隐式状态，而在通用编程语言中必须显式地处理这些东西。

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The new language, they decided, should be easy to learn for a beginner, and general purpose so that all kinds of programs could be written in it.

这种新的编程语言对新手来说必须简单易学，并且通用，以便能够编写各种程序。

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First of all, successful language learners are independent learners. Successful language learning is active learning. Successful language learners are learners with a purpose.

此题问的是成功的语言学习者是如何学习语言的。文章的第二、三、四自然段开头的第一句话就是问题的答案，即。

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Content is a function -or let me say practical language, the purpose, in other words, of communicating facts or of communicating at all, which we associate with practical language -is a function of poetic language.

他们认为，内容即是功能,实用语言的目的，就是交流，我们总是把交流和实用语言联系,但其实它也是诗歌语言的功能。

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