In a high-level language, square root might simply be a primitive that you can use rather than you having to go over and code it.

一个高级的语言，平方根可能仅仅,只是你能使用的一个基本要素,而不是你需要去编译它。

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And by making them go away you don't get to the root of your problem.

虽然恐慌症的症状得以消除,但你却无法找到问题的根源。

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When I went to graduate school, I studied American culture studies, and I was amazed at the ideals that were just made up by someone, and they'd just taken on these huge lives of their own and become things that we obsess about, and really, when you go back to the root of it, it doesn't mean anything.

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Founder J Sider says he plans to use that capital to establish Root Music as the go-to place for musicians on Facebook.

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He said Icann feared that if any root server were to go offline the damage claims by companies with lost business could be huge.

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