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机器
Machines
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。
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?
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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。
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 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。
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。
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。
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。