As we talk about this, as people talk about this, in the context of our object-oriented programming, they typically will talk about it in terms of message pass, a message passing metaphor.

当我们讨论这个的时候，当人们讨论这个的时候,在面向对象编程的背景下它们往往会,被称为消息传递，也就是传递隐喻的消息。

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Now again, don't get carried away, I almost didn't talk about this whole message-passing paradigm, but it's so pervasive in the world I felt you needed to hear about it.

现在我基本上没有讲过这种消息传递的实例，但是你们需要了解它所以我觉得你得好好听,但是他不是什么很深奥的概念,如果你不想考虑消息的概念。

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