I didn't expect it to do this. If you understand why it did what it did, you're half way there.

这样运行的啊，如果你能弄明白为什么,它这么运行，你已经完成了差不多一半了。

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Because you won't want to do everything from scratch yourself, you want to be able to look at what is being created by somebody else and understand what is inside of there, whether it works correctly and how you can build on it This is one of the few places where plagiarism is an OK thing.

因为你们不会想无论做什么事情,都由你们自己亲自上阵，你们希望有能力读懂,别人创造的语言,并了解其中的内涵，运转的正确性和如何在其基础之上继续发展,这是为数不多的,合理的作弊行为之一。

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We'll talk about some chemistry today, what DNA molecules are like, why they have the behavior that they do, and you need to understand this in order to understand how you manipulate DNA.

今天我们会谈到一些化学结构,比如DNA分子的形态,它们为什么会以这种形态存在,你必须先掌握这些,才能理解如何操控DNA

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Can you still understand what it was you were trying to do?

你能依然明白,代码的含义么？

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