The head of a string of pigs appeared, snout-up, over the ditch, and he had to screech to a stop and watch the rear of the last pig disappear shaking into the ditch on the other side.

这时候出现了一群猪，仰着鼻子走过水渠，他只好用一个急刹车,目送着最后一只猪大摇大摆地跨过水沟,消失在另一端。

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And what are the strings up to in terms of string technique here?

这里弦乐的演奏技巧,是为了表达什么

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So STR, which I just typed up there, takes in parens, some input, and it converts it into a string, so that now I can use that John where I was expecting a string. John.

因此STR，也就是，我刚刚输入的，然后把这个输入变更为一个字符串，因此现在我就能,在需要用字符串的地方使用这个对象了。

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