You can compel the compiler to treat some value as a different type of value, at least if it makes intuitive sense that that should be possible.

你可以控制编译器处理,不同类型的数据，至少我们凭直觉,它应该是可能的。

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And if you speak other languages that I don't, you can nonetheless compel me to speak them at least in subtitle form.

如果你不懂英语的话，那也只能,改变下字幕了。

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