A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.
随着现在一切的发展和科技的发展，你可以用很多不同的新材料做很多事情。
To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
要让宇宙飞船在另一个世界着陆是非常困难的，如果我们失去了这种能力，那将是令人心碎的。
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
市场根据技术的实际效果来判断技术，根据技术是否成功或失败来判断技术。
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
以运输和通讯的时间来衡量，现在整个地球比一百年前的一个欧洲小国还要小。
Sometimes you might think that the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
有时你可能会认为，我们崇拜的机器做出了所有主要的任命，提拔那些似乎与它们最亲近的人。
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
科学技术的进步并不意味着大多数人生活中智力的复杂性在增加。它的意思往往相反。
Little figures on a little screen showed newsreel footage, talked about the war with maps and pointers, unable to compete as yet with radio.
小屏幕上的小数字显示新闻短片，用地图和指针谈论战争，还无法与收音机竞争。
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
从某种程度上说，整个公共关系灾难的有趣之处在于，网络的基础非常好。
I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.
我在高中的电子学中已经学了足够的电路知识，知道如何驱动电视并让它画出人物和其他东西的形状。
Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
每当你在汽车前排队，环顾四周，你就会想，天哪，我真希望这些人都被电脑司机取代。
In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.
简单地说，我们今天的业务与我们认为未来系统将被设计、获得和维护的方式保持一致。
I read somewhere that machinery is going to take the place of every profession. Oh my dear that’s something you’ll never have to worry about.
我在什么地方读到过，机器将取代所有的职业。哦，亲爱的，那是你永远不用担心的事情。
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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。
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
技术给了我们力量，但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技，我们可以在世界各地即时交流，但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。
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。
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?
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。
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
我们开发谷歌的环境，我们能够开发搜索引擎的原因，是网络是如此的开放。一旦你制定了太多的规则，就会扼杀创新。