People somehow got the idea that Los Angeles is just this wonderful city and so they started bidding up real estate prices.

不知怎么的人们就认为,洛杉矶是一个美好的城市,而且他们开始竞相抬升房地产的价格

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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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