manipulate data

基本解释

As you well know, filesystems exist to allow you to store, retrieve and manipulate data.
正如您所了解的那样，文件系统的存在允许您储存、检索和操作数据。
Data is the central element of all computing systems, which exist to manage, mine, and manipulate data.
数据是用于管理、挖掘和操作数据的所有计算系统的核心元素。
These services exist at a lower level of detail, and physically manipulate data for persistence, access, and delivery.
这些服务存在于不同的详细级别，并物理地操作数据以便保存、访问和传输。

And the second thing we're going to need, is we're going to need a way to give instructions to the computer to manipulate that data.
我们需要的第二件事情是，我们需要一种,能给予计算机指令,以操作数据的方式。
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And it's a topic I want to pick up on today, we're going to do for the next few lectures, and it's a topic I want to spend some time on because this idea of capturing data and methods, the term we're going to use for it, but data and functions that belong to that data, things that can be used to manipulate them, is a really powerful one.
我们会在今天讲这个话题,在后面几节课还会讲这个,这是个我愿意花点时间，在上面的话题因为这是个,捕获数据和方法的思想,我们用这个术语来形容它，数据中包括了数据和函数等，能用来操作它们的东西,真的是很强大的工具，我们真正要讲的东西是，我们要学会如何把信息。
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