In a compiled language, you have an intermediate step, in which you take the source code, it runs through what's called a checker or a compiler or both, and it creates what's called object code.

而在编译语言里，你就会经过一个中间的步骤，在这种语言里输入源码后，先经过过滤器,或者编译器检查后，它会创建一个叫做目标代码的东西。

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Language of this source is a device, and in relation to other devices it's called a "function."

语言是一种工具，和其他工具一样有功能“

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And so Richard is learning a grammar of race even while he tries to work out how to use language as a source of power in his family.

所以理查在学习语言的艺术,虽局限于种族,就是他在家里受尽磨难时也在学习语言的魔力。

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So write the so called source code which is in a specific language.

用指定的编程语言,写出所谓的源代码。

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What that basically says is the following: in an interpreted language, you take what's called the source code, the thing you write, it may go through a simple checker but it basically goes to the interpreter, that thing inside the machine that's going to control the flow of going through each one of the instructions, and give you an output.

也就说，如果是解释语言的话：,你要写一些叫做，源码的东西，你写的东西会经过一个简单的过滤器,然后解释器会处理你的源码，解释器会产生一个,逐条读取你的源码的,控制流，然后返回一个输出结果。

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