很简单， 核心（core） 就是执行计算机命令的电路部件。

Quite simply, a core is the circuitry that executes computer commands.

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该方法可以由执行计算机程序指令的计算机系统的处理器执行。

This method may be performed by a processor of a computer system executing computer program instructions.

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采用先进的伺服控制系统，让机器可以准确无误地执行计算机指令。

Adopting advance servo motor control system makes the machine can execute computer order precisely.

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And the robot or the computer or what have you is just automatically, mechanically following the code commands of the program.

那些机器人,或叫做计算机等等,只是自动地,机械地执行程序的命令代码

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up employing something called programming, the act of constructing, telling a computer to do your bidding.

你们会使用一种叫做程序设计的方法，或称之为构建，即让计算机去执行你的命令。

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What that means, in a stored-program computer, is that I can provide to the computer a sequence of instructions describing the process I want it to execute.

它的意思就是说，我可以给一个存储程序计算机,提供一系列,描述我希望,能执行的过程的指令。

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