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科技
Technology
It's really a good feeling to know that we put this up there, that it's working, that all these people's plans that worked so hard came together and things fit and we've got a real space station.
很高兴我们把这个放在那里，它在工作，所有这些人的努力工作的计划在一起，一切都很好，我们有了一个真正的空间站。
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
邮件的运输，人的声音的运输，闪烁的图像的运输——在这个世纪，正如在其他领域一样，我们的最高成就仍然只有一个目标，那就是把人们团结在一起。
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
现代技术已成为文明的一种普遍现象，成为一种新的社会秩序的决定性力量，在这种秩序中，效率不再是一种选择，而是强加于所有人类活动的一种必要条件。
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
专利，或者发明，是任何你可以组合在一起的技术或想法的集合，以前没有人用这种方式组合在一起。这就是专利局的定义。这是一个发明。
Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
将粒子分散成一串是朝着让我们熟悉的一切都变得模糊的方向迈出的一步。你进入了一个全新的世界，那里的一切都不是你所习惯的。
Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.
全球资本市场带来的问题与喷气式飞机一样。它们更快、更舒适，而且能把你带到更好的地方。但这些崩盘要壮观得多。
I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.
我有一个很喜欢的观点，那就是全球通讯现在发展得如此之快，把信息扔给你，让你可以得到所有的东西，但我觉得它让我们越来越孤立。
A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.
很多人们认为具有创新性的东西都是赶时髦和转瞬即逝的，我只是想告诉你，像广播一样的持久力最终比你能下载到的最新应用程序更重要。
I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.
我想我们已经找到了一种有效利用太阳能的方法，并将其与一种有效利用核能的方法联系起来，使其不会造成严重的环境问题。
The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
这项工作需要在技术和理论发展方面有相当大的投资，并需要很长的时间来进行，而没有取得迅速或短期成果的压力。
I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus. Karlheinz Stockhausen
这一年的大部分时间，我都是在科隆一家电台的电子音乐工作室里度过的，或者是在其他工作室里，我用各种各样的电子设备创作新作品。 迦施托克豪森
These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.
当然，如今人们谈论通过产品实现大众解放的焦点大多与互联网有关。我一直在收集电脑广告和互联网行业的广告。
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
发明的进步赋予了人类一个世纪前最大胆的想象所无法想象的力量。
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
人类的每一项发明、每一件工具、每一件仪器、每一件器物、每一种为使用而设计的物品，都是从非常简单的开始发展起来的。
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
我们拥有的，而机器没有的，是展示智慧的能力。
Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?
如果我们用来照顾自己的技术和我们用来赚钱的技术一样好，那不是很棒吗?
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
人类创造的所有最伟大的技术发明——飞机、汽车、电脑——很少提到他的智力，但却充分说明了他的懒惰。
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
对于一项成功的技术，现实必须凌驾于公共关系之上，因为自然是不会被愚弄的。