Well you know what a point is, it's got an x- and a y- coordinate, it's natural to think about those two things as belonging as a single entity.

把这两个坐标认为，是属于一个独立的实体，是理所当然的事情,因此实现这个目的的。

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The equation for the y coordinate is the height of the building.

坐标的方程是楼的高度

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It's easy to think of a point as just a list of an x- and a y- coordinate.

或者说有两个元素的数组,把一个点认为是含有x坐标。

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This is the y coordinate and this is the x coordinate.

这是y轴，这是x轴。

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How about the y coordinate?

坐标呢

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If I do that, I would like to call the coordinate y, then I will write the same thing.

如果是那种情形,我会把坐标记为y,然后写出一样的式子

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