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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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。

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

我们已经从一个对制造业、经济、政治感兴趣的文化——试图在世界上扮演重要角色——转变为一个真正以娱乐为基础的文化。

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。

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

婚姻对下层阶级来说已经足够好了:他们有我们所没有的逃婚的便利条件。