A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
蛋白质是活组织的机械，它构建生命所必需的结构并进行化学反应。
With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
有了调制解调器，任何人都可以跟踪世界，报道世界——没有中间人，就没有老大哥。我想这改变了一切。
Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.
毫无疑问，在未来几年，本地商业将成为移动设备支持的基本用例之一。
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
几乎任何人在计算机行业所做的任何事情，你都可以回去查阅文献，证明有人曾经做过。
The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.
长期以来，公众一直被分成两部分，一部分人认为科学可以做任何事情，另一部分人则担心科学会做任何事情。
Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world.
作为地方经济的引擎和未来科技世界不可或缺的一部分，广播行业的好日子还在前头。
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
直到本世纪中叶，我们对周围世界的所有认知都是通过书架或纸张传递的。
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
打字机在演奏时带着表情，并不比钢琴在姐姐或近亲面前更烦人。
“I'm sure of it. And it might happen quicker than you think. There's a lot of creativity winding its way into the electro-sphere.”
“我敢肯定。这可能比你想象的要快。在电子领域有很多创意。”
To a considerable degree science consists in originating the maximum amount of information with the minimum expenditure of energy.
在相当大的程度上，科学就是用最少的精力创造最多的信息。
Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.
总之，所有这些电脑和数码产品都不好。他们只是用数字填满你的脑袋，这对你没有好处。
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
电脑无法告诉你情感故事。它可以给你精确的数学设计，但缺少的是眉毛。
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Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
尽管技术上有了很大的进步，但归根结底还是一个男人或一个女人和麦克风，播放音乐，分享故事，谈论问题——与观众交流。
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 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。
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
人们今天比以往活得更长。他们过着更快乐的生活，拥有更多的知识和信息。所有这些都是通信技术的结果。有什么不好的?
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?
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
信息技术的最大好处是它使人们能够做他们想做的事情。它让人们变得有创造力。它让人们更有效率。它让人们学习他们以前认为自己学不到的东西，所以从某种意义上说，这一切都是关于潜力的。