A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
机器
Machines
I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
我可以让他们的投票机唱回家甜蜜的家。
I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.
我偶尔去健身房举重，我不用器械。
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
电报是一种能以极快的速度在广泛的线路上传送信息的机器。
Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.
我们的身体是机器，必须有功能，要做到这一点，它们必须得到适当的喂养。
Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
用比空气还重的机器飞行是不切实际的，即使不是完全不可能的，也是微不足道的。
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
我想象着有一天，我们对机器人的意义就像狗对人类的意义一样，我支持机器。
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
随着机器变得越来越高效和完美，人类的伟大之处就会变得越来越明显:不完美。
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
研究包括四件事:用来思考的大脑，用来看东西的眼睛，用来测量的机器，第四，钱。
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
机器根本没有取代校对员。文案编辑，校对和更多，更多，使用拼写检查作为工具，但阅读每一个出现在报纸上的单词。
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
人们崇拜机器，因为它们美丽而珍贵，因为它们赋予权力;人们憎恨他们，因为他们丑陋不堪，憎恨他们，因为他们强加奴隶制度。
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
人类制造的机器，如果我们给它们提供一个非常特殊的环境，它们就能正常工作。但是如果环境发生了变化，它们就完全不能工作了。
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.
像我父亲一样，我小时候也不会把任何东西扔掉，把旧玩具、电动机和破机器的碎片放在床底下我称之为“有用的东西盒子”里。
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It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?
奇怪的是，我们创造了技术，然后把它应用到机器上，而我们可以把它应用到我们自己身上。汽车现在可以探测到背后是否有东西，但我们没有这种能力。为什么我们要把这样一个简单的概念应用到汽车上，而我们可以把它应用到我们自己身上呢?
Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.
许多技术正在以最快的速度向前发展，用机器取代工厂和办公室里的工人，让股东变得更富有，让工人变得更贫穷，这些技术确实倾向于加剧财富分配方面现有的不平等。