A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Machine
The economy is like a machine.
经济就像一台机器。
An office is a machine for dying.
办公室是死亡的机器。
Almost everything is like a machine.
几乎所有的东西都像一台机器。
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
人是一种美丽的机器,却不能很好地工作。
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
粉碎控制图像。砸烂控制机。
I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.
我不是弹球机里的球。我知道我想要什么。
You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.
如果你知道如何记忆,你就不需要时间机器了。
We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.
我们都沉浸在宣传机器中。没有人能幸免。
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
演员不是机器,但他们把你当机器一样对待。一个赚钱机器。
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
如果你不往机器里放几个五分镍币,就别指望中头彩。
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。
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
是硬件使机器速度快。是软件让机器变慢。
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Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.
通常,当你在屏幕上看到自己时,你会觉得自己就像一件被洗衣机洗过的毛衣。你会有这样一种感觉:你完成了一个完整而明亮的东西,突然,当你在屏幕上看到它时,它又变成了一个很小的东西。
Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data.
图形学最近向机器学习发生了重大转变,机器学习本身就是关于理解数据的。
If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.
如果最糟糕的事情就是没有人笑,那我也能应付,因为在工厂最糟糕的事情就是我可能会失去一条腿或者被一台巨大的机器压死。
My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.
我父亲给我买了一个小手风琴,我三岁的时候就有了这个小机器。
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
机器对美德、怜悯和爱情产生了有害的影响,习惯于机器的年轻人会产生惰性和恐惧,他们几乎无能为力。
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
在人类所有的发明中,组织是由履行相互依赖功能的人组成的机器,是最强大的。