An automatic system for programming used to create an object program in machine language from a source program written by a programmer. One instruction in the object program is created from one inst ruction in the source program.NEAT will translate and compile source programs that are written in COBOL.; 一种程序设计自动化(编译)系统,用来将程序员编写 的源程序翻译成用机器语言表示的目标程序, 一条源程序指令翻译成一条目标程序指令。该系统可以翻译和编译用COBOL语言编写的 源程序。NEAT是National's Electronic Autocoding Technique的缩写。
neat adj. 1.干净的,整洁的;匀整的,端正的。 2.(文字)简洁的,适当的;灵巧的,精巧的。 3.〔俚语〕好的;美妙的。 4.〔英国〕纯的,没搀水的;洁的。 a neat dress 整洁的服装。 neat weight 净重。 as neat as a pin 干干净净,非常整洁。 brandy neat 纯白兰地酒。 make a neat job of it 做得干净利落。 neat but not gaudy 〔美国〕麻利的,灵巧的。 adv. -ly ,-ness n. n. 〔sing., pl.〕 〔集合词〕牛;牛类。
Filing every bit of paper in a precise category, with colour-coded index tabs and a neat system of cross-referencing, will certainly take longer 相比之下,将每份文档精确地归类,使用彩色的索引分别标识,并建立井井有条的参照系统所耗费的时间肯定会多得多。