You could use the term "Language" to describe what dogs do, or what chimpanzees do, or birds.

在此意义上,"语言"可以被用来描述,狗儿在干什么,黑猩猩在干什么,或是鸟儿在干什么

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You could use language to describe music, talk about the--a musical language or art, or any communicative system, and there's actually nothing wrong with that.

也可用来描述音乐,即音乐语言,或是去描述艺术,或任何的交流系统,都是没问题的

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As we'll discuss later, the language that gets used with these things is very interesting.

我们今后会讨论,描述食物的语言也非常有趣

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As a matter of convention and good style which is another theme of the course that we'll focus more - on on Friday onward, it's generally good to-- good style to actually describe in English even succinct English, what your program is doing.

大家要养成一个良好的编程习惯,这是本课程另一个重要的中心思想,我会在本周五还有以后的课堂时间着重强调这个问题-,用简明扼要的语言,描述你的程序，是一种很好的编程风格。

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All right, And to describe the recipes, we're going to want a language.

好的，为了描述这些方法，我们想要一种语言。

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It's not--It's actually close to how linguists describe normal languages, but it's very simple.

这个例子和语言学家所描述的,正常语言非常接近,但却很简单

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Yes, this is a book about the privations of growing up in the South poor and black, but it is very much, very consciously, a book about the development of someone who attends to language.

书的着重点的确是,记述在南方成长的穷孩子，但作者刻意地描述了，一个关注语言人的成长经历。

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Pseudo code. Now, you're all linguistic majors, pseudo means false, this sounds like code that ain't going to run, and that's not the intent of the term. When I say pseudo code, what I mean is, I'm going to write a description of the steps, but not in a particular programming language.

伪代码，基于你们都是学语言的，伪代码意味着不正确,这听起来就像是没法运行的代码,这可不是我们学这个的目的，当我说到伪代码的时候,我的意思是要对步骤进行一个描述,而不是某种特定的编程语言。

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Well, the claim that language is part of human nature is supported by neurological studies, some of which were referred to in the chapters on the brain that you read earlier that talk about dedicated parts of the brain that work for language.

语言是人类本性的一部分的这个观点,得到了神经研究的支持,在之前大家阅读的关于大脑的章节中,对专门负责语言功能脑区的探讨,就描述了其中的一些研究

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Zooey That thread of the mystical quality of language at its extreme of literary power is what I drew out of Franny and Zooey.

我所描述的Franny和,正是那种语言的神秘色彩，处于它极端的艺术感染力。

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