A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

  • -- Charles Babbage 巴贝奇

工具通常比机器简单;它通常是用手,而机器经常是由动物或蒸汽动力移动。

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We hung in there and stuck to our game plan, but just ran out of steam at the end. I'm really proud of the kids' effort.

我们坚持了下来,坚持我们的比赛计划,但最后却失去了动力。我为孩子们的努力感到骄傲。

The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.

铁匠铺看上去就像一辆蒸汽机车撞上了希腊的帕台农神庙,它们融合在一起。

I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

我希望在我离开这个世界时,人们能说,“他不只是一台赚钱的机器。”

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

我被变成了一台观察事实并得出结论的机器。