Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

  • -- Ralph Merkle 拉尔夫·默克尔

制造是在非常大的设施中进行的。如果你想制造计算机芯片,你需要一个巨大的半导体制造设备。但是,自然界只需要一株植物就可以培育出复杂的分子机器。

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Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

公共游泳池、娱乐中心、暑期阅读项目、青年就业项目——这些都在关门大吉。这些都是低收入儿童最依赖的设施和项目。

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.

分子制造技术将让我们制造分子手术工具,而这些工具将让我们第一次直接从最根本的层面解决问题。

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

是的,长官,一辆巡逻车来了,把我带到一个车站,他们正在冲洗胶卷,但是他们没有冲洗彩色胶卷的设备。