01-02 Introducing the Building Blocks of the .NET Platform (the CLR, CTS, and CLS)

The primary role of the CLR is to locate, load, and manage .NET objects on your behalf. 

CLR主要的角色就是为你定位，加载和管理.Net对象。

The CLR also takes care of a number of low-level details such as memory management, application hosting, coordinating threads, and performing security checks (among other low-level details).
CLR关注一些低级的细节，包括内存管理，应用程序托管，进程同步和执行安全检查。

The CTS specification fully describes all possible data types and all programming constructs supported by the runtime, specifies how these entities can interact with each other, and details how they are represented in the .NET metadata format (more information on metadata later in this chapter; see Chapter 15 for complete details).
CTS说明描述了可能的数据类型和运行时支持的编程结构，说明了这些实体如何互相交互，说明了.Net元数据格式细节。