Now that you have the ability to ask yes or no questions, you wanna be able to branch or fork in the road based on those answers.

你现在能问一些肯定或者否定的问题，根据结果,你就能进行选择了。

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Step 5, now this is an example of what we'll henceforth call a condition or a branch because it's sort of a fork in the road.

步骤五，这是一个关于我们调用一个条件,或者分支语句的例子，因为这是一个岔路口。

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So it turns out in C, you can absolutely represent the idea of a condition, a branch, a fork in the road.

结果在C语言中，你们完全可以表示出环境的概念,一个分支，一个三岔路口。

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