symbolic language

基本解释

It is the closest approach to symbolic language of any creature apart from humans.
在除人类之外的生物中，这种方式最接近符号语言。
With Mathematica, I had a symbolic language to represent anything—as well as the algorithmic power to do any kind of computation.
有了Mathematica，我就可以用符号语言来描述一切事物，同时可以用算法的威力进行任何形式的计算。
Mathematica is a computing environment providing support for numerous numeric and symbolic computations through a dedicated symbolic language.
Mathematica是一个计算环境，通过专用的符号语言为众多数值和符号计算提供支持。

What the whole note is, what all these symbols are are simply representations of duration so we have a symbolic language here that's going to represent the horizontal axis the axis of duration.
什么是全音符,这些符号又都是什么呢,这些就是简单代表了持续时间,因此我们这里有一套符号语言,来代表横轴,就是时值的那条轴
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