玛丽：那些是功能键，帮您给电脑下指令。

Mary: Those are called function Keys. They help you give the commands to the computer.

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例如，代码的一小部分似乎是设计来给984个连接在一起的机器下指令。

For example, one small section of the code appears designed to send commands to 984 machines linked together.

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例如，它还不能理解对话；如果孩子跟它说话，身处其他房间的研究人员必须下指令让机器人作出相应反应。

For instance, it cannot yet understand speech; a researcher in the other room must command the robot to respond if the child speaks to it.

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You saw that in the way he stood bobbing his head, always looking down, nodding like a young boxer to instructions to make you think he was listening to every word, throwing in a thousand "yes"es and "that's right."

你看他站着摇头晃脑的样子，总是朝下看，像年轻的拳击手听指令时一样,那样晃着脑袋，好让你觉得他在听你说的每个字，一边不断附和着“是““对“

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Programming in this context boils down to telling the computer what to do.

在该环境下,编程是给计算机发出指令。

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We execute that instruction, we move to the next one.

我们执行那个指令，我们继续下一轮。

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