Well, the assignment operator makes a copy of the thing on the right and puts it in the thing on the left.

赋值操作符把右边的东西,复制到左边。

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So this is the equality operator, whereas the single equal sign is the assignment operator.

所以这是相等操作符，然而那个单等号是一个赋值运算符。

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The equal sign is really called the "assignment operator."

那个等号其实是个“赋值运算符“

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So the assignment operator thus far makes copies of things.

所以到现在为止，赋值运算符复制了很多数据。

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- And here as promised is that other operator -- looks a little weird, but because assignment is already using the equal sign to assign one value on the right to a variable on the left.

在这里正像所承诺的那样，其他的操作-,看起来有点怪异，但是因为“=“已经被用来当赋值运算符了,用来把右边的一个值赋值给左边的变量。

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