Sometimes the old aristocracy will be able to hold on for a very long time and to suppress any attempt to change things.

有时一些老贵族,会冥顽不灵,固执己见,试图遏止这些变革力量

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And abstraction is related to that, abstraction is going to let us suppress details.

抽象也与此紧密相关，抽象能让我们忽略细节。

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Because when we try to suppress a natural phenomenon such as having a visual of the word when we say it, that thing just intensifies.

因为当我们企图压抑一种自然现象时,比如提起一个词时浮现出相应形象，只会加强它。

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What you want isn't always what you get and this leads to a set of reactions to cope with the fact that pleasure isn't always there when you want it either by planning how to satisfy your desires or planning how to suppress them.

世事总难以尽如人意,快乐并不总是在你想要的时候得到满足,你只能通过设法满足欲望,或设法抑制欲望,来应对这样的事实。

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I don't know what the names of the variables are, I don't care, I can basically suppress away that detail.

在solve函数中使用了些什么值,我不知道里面的变量的名称,我可以简单的跳过这些细节。

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I've used some abstraction to suppress some details here.

我用了抽象的方法,来隐藏了一些具体的实现。

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And when we try to suppress them, they strengthen.

企图压制它们时，它们会加强。

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Second thing they're going to do is let us suppress detail. And in essence what that does is, the functions, and we're going to look at a bunch of examples in a second, these functions are going to give us a way to, in some or in one way of thinking about it is to create new primitives.

第二件要做的事,是忽略细节,函数的本质到底是什么,我们将在接下来的几分钟，举一些例子，这些函数将给我们提供,一种创建原语的思考方式。

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Now that I've written sqrt, I can just use it anywhere I want in the code. You've got to rely on the fact that I wrote it correctly, but you can basically suppress the details of how it's used.

就是忽略细节,既然我已经编写了sqrt函数,我可以在代码的任何地方使用它，你完全可以依靠,我已经编写的这个函数。

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