But in the meantime, awaiting the publication of the books, he must do something more than live dazed and stupid in the sort of uncaring trance into which he had fallen.

但是在等着他的书出版的时候，他总得有点事做，不能像现在这样浑浑噩噩呆头呆脑，什么都不在乎地过日子。

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It may mean something different and this is sort of just stupid re-use of syntax although frankly it wouldn't really be much fun to have yet a symbol so they went with the same symbol which is pretty reasonable in the context *a of a function prototype this just means *a expect A to be the address of an int and expect B to be the address of an int.

这里的意思有点不同,这是为了重使用的目的,虽然这个符号没有什么意义,所以在函数原型中，他们就使用了相同的符号,这只是表示，期望,是一个int型的地址,期望b是一个int型的地址。

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