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```html
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-We call this a "root" DOM node because everything inside it will be managed by React DOM.
+我们将其称为“根” DOM 节点，因为该节点内的所有内容都将由 React DOM 管理。
-Applications built with just React usually have a single root DOM node. If you are integrating React into an existing app, you may have as many isolated root DOM nodes as you like.
+仅使用 React 构建的应用通常只有单一的根 DOM 节点。如果你在将 React 集成进一个已有应用，那么你可以在应用中包含任意多的独立根 DOM 节点。
-To render a React element into a root DOM node, pass both to `ReactDOM.render()`:
+想要将一个 React 元素渲染到根 DOM 节点中，只需把它们一起传入 `ReactDOM.render()`：
`embed:rendering-elements/render-an-element.js`
[](codepen://rendering-elements/render-an-element)
-It displays "Hello, world" on the page.
+页面上会展示出 "Hello, world"。
-## Updating the Rendered Element {#updating-the-rendered-element}
+## 更新已渲染的元素 {#updating-the-rendered-element}
-React elements are [immutable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immutable_object). Once you create an element, you can't change its children or attributes. An element is like a single frame in a movie: it represents the UI at a certain point in time.
+React 元素是[不可变对象](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immutable_object)。一旦被创建，你就无法更改它的子元素或者属性。一个元素就像电影的单帧：它代表了某个特定时刻的 UI。
-With our knowledge so far, the only way to update the UI is to create a new element, and pass it to `ReactDOM.render()`.
+根据我们已有的知识，更新 UI 唯一的方式是创建一个全新的元素，并将其传入 `ReactDOM.render()`。
-Consider this ticking clock example:
+考虑一个计时器的例子：
`embed:rendering-elements/update-rendered-element.js`
[](codepen://rendering-elements/update-rendered-element)
-It calls `ReactDOM.render()` every second from a [`setInterval()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowTimers/setInterval) callback.
+这个例子会在 [`setInterval()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowTimers/setInterval) 回调函数，每秒都调用 `ReactDOM.render()`。
->**Note:**
+>**注意：**
>
->In practice, most React apps only call `ReactDOM.render()` once. In the next sections we will learn how such code gets encapsulated into [stateful components](/docs/state-and-lifecycle.html).
+>在实践中，大多数 React 应用只会调用一次 `ReactDOM.render()`。在下一个章节，我们将学习如何将这些代码封装到[有状态组件](/docs/state-and-lifecycle.html)中。
>
->We recommend that you don't skip topics because they build on each other.
+>我们建议你不要跳跃着阅读，因为每个话题都是紧密联系的。
-## React Only Updates What's Necessary {#react-only-updates-whats-necessary}
+## React 只更新它需要更新的部分 {#react-only-updates-whats-necessary}
-React DOM compares the element and its children to the previous one, and only applies the DOM updates necessary to bring the DOM to the desired state.
+React DOM 会将元素和它的子元素与它们之前的状态进行比较，并只会进行必要的更新来使 DOM 达到预期的状态。
-You can verify by inspecting the [last example](codepen://rendering-elements/update-rendered-element) with the browser tools:
+你可以使用浏览器的检查元素工具查看[上一个例子](codepen://rendering-elements/update-rendered-element)来确认这一点。
-Even though we create an element describing the whole UI tree on every tick, only the text node whose contents has changed gets updated by React DOM.
+尽管每一秒我们都会新建一个描述整个 UI 树的元素，React DOM 只会更新实际改变了的内容，也就是例子中的文本节点。
-In our experience, thinking about how the UI should look at any given moment rather than how to change it over time eliminates a whole class of bugs.
+根据我们的经验，考虑 UI 在任意给定时刻的状态，而不是随时间变化的过程，能够消灭一整类的 bug。