What that colon is saying is, I'm about to begin a sequence of instructions that I want to treat as a block.

这个冒号的意思是，下面的一系列的指令,要当做一整块来对待。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It is, of course, important if you use animal testing to treat the animals with as much dignity as possible.

如果要用动物做实验的话，请给予这些动物最大的尊严，我认为一点十分重要。

需要动物实验吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

You can compel the compiler to treat some value as a different type of value, at least if it makes intuitive sense that that should be possible.

你可以控制编译器处理,不同类型的数据，至少我们凭直觉,它应该是可能的。

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But nowadays, it's a horse, but in the end, if you're going to treat it as a point particle, it seems to me to be a real waste.

但是如今,一匹马,到最后,如果你仅把它当做一个质点来看,对我来说似乎是有点太浪费了

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Well I need to take that number and I'm going to turn it into a string. So notice what I'm going to do right here. I take that number and convert it into a string. That's an example of that type conversion we did earlier on. By doing that it makes it possible for me to treat it as an ordered sequence of characters.

我可能得把这个数字变为字符串,请注意我这里是怎么做的,我把这个数字,转化为字符串了,这是我们之前学过的,类型转换的例子,这么一来我就能把它按照有序的。

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Monday evening will be the time at which the midterm exam will be posted on the website, and that'll be at 6:00 pm Monday evening. You'll have a 24-hour period of time in which to find--I forget what I said--30 or 40 minutes? It'll be clear on the instructions. To just sit and treat it as if you're in an in-class exam situation, and write your essay.

周一晚上期中考试的内容会,粘贴到网站上，应该是晚上六点,你可以在一天之内抽出30到40分钟完成考试0,这在说明上都写明了,就把它当作课堂考试对待，写一篇短论文。

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A moral maturity as it comes to economic systems, as it comes to how we treat our most vulnerable, how we do foreign policy, what are some of the pathways as you see in front of us as we do moral maturity as we grow up?

经济体质的道德成熟，对待弱者的道德成熟，怎样制定外交政策，在我们逐渐成长的过程中,你认为我们有什么途径能够达到道德成熟吗？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I'm going to treat this chapter as a sort of microcosm of the book, with respect to its craft. Let's look at how this opens: "The next afternoon when he got his car back, he drove it out into the country to see how well it worked on the open road.

我认为这一章是整本书的缩影，关于这个的写法，让我们一起看一下她是如何开头的：,第二天下午，当他拿回自己的车时，他把它开出去,开到农村里，想看看开着它在平坦的公路上时，它的性能如何。

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So, the idea behind a lot of psychology -- particularly a lot of neuroscience and cognitive psychology -- is to treat the mind as an information processor, as an elaborate computer.

暗含在许多心理科学背后的假设,尤其是许多神经科学,和认知心理学,便是认为心理是一种信息加工机制,就像一部精密的电脑

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Now, you might have said, gee, why didn't it just assume that I wanted to in fact treat these as strings, and combine them together?

现在，你们可能会认为，伊，为什么Python不假设,我实际上想把这些对象当做字符串一样对待，然后把它们组合到一起呢？

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