Novels and poems are read in a prescribed temporal sequence, whereas a picture has no clear place at which to start viewing, or at which to finish.

人们会按既定的时间顺序阅读小说和诗歌，但一幅画却没有明确的让人开始或结束欣赏的地方。

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That's only the start in this spectacular sequence that pulls out all the stops.

这只是这部精彩序列的一个开头，继而还会出现更多终点站。

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A timestamp, quantized from the start of the sequence.

数字时间信息列，从序列的开始进行量化得到的。

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This is a little file I created, all right, and I'm going to start with a sequence of these things and walk them along, again I invite you to put comments on that handout so that you can follow what we're going to do. All right?

这是我创建的一个小文件，好，然后我回去以一系列这样的事情,开始然后进行下去，我还是想大家都在手册上做一些注释,这样我们就能对将要做的事情,做一个记录了，对不对？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

What we're saying is, in order to do computation, we want to describe recipes, we want to describe this sequence of steps built on some primitives, and we want to describe the flow of control that goes through those sequence of steps as we carry on So the last thing we need before we can start talking about real programming is, we need to describe those recipes.

我们在说，为了做计算，我们想描述一个方法，想描述建立在,相同基本类型上的步骤序列，而且我们想描述经过我们设计的,步骤的序列的，控制流程,因此我们开始谈论真正的编程之前,的最后一件事是，我们需要描述一下那些方法。

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In Egypt, by design, the military and the Islamist Brotherhood have reversed the sequence and were intent against the desires and the requests of the revolutionaries and many secularists, politicians, right from the beginning, right from February, to start with a decent constitution and they reversed the sequence to start with elections.

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Once inside, many programs alter the registry keys that are checked during each start-up sequence, allowing the malicious software to be re-installed after a system has been remediated.

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It doesn't have to go through its start-up sequence again.

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