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科技
Technology
We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.
我们拜倒在科学之神面前，却发现它给了我们原子弹，制造了科学永远无法减轻的恐惧和焦虑。
There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.
当然，在空气中有很大的潜力，为做一本杂志，重点是商业的方式，特别是，正在改变的互联网。
I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.
我对原子核感兴趣最初是在我的氘照片上因为那是一个基本的力，测量是新科学的基础。
Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.
用叠加电离室和威尔逊电离室、电离室和计数管同时记录尚未进行。
The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.
最好的博物馆和有关科学或技术的博物馆展览给你的感觉是，嘿，这很有趣，但也许我也可以在这里做点什么。
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
科学发现在于为了我们自身的方便而对一种根本不考虑我们的方便的存在体系进行解释。
As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.
当每一种新病毒被构思、创造并释放到野外时，反病毒软件也会做一些小的改变来对抗新的威胁。
I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.
我想上编程学校。学会坐在任何一台电脑前，学会在上面做任何事情。这就是我所剩下的和感兴趣的。
We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.
我们可以拥有科技、繁荣、漂亮的房子和汽车，但同时我们必须意识到我们正在向水、空气和食物中倾倒的东西。
Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.
他们配备了手机、传呼机和掌上电脑，随时随地的工作模糊了家庭和办公室之间的界限。
If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.
如果我们不继续寻求像核燃料这样的替代的、无排放的能源，我们就有增加对昂贵的天然气依赖的风险。
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
在这一领域发生的情况超出了准确预测的范围，这是由于各种因素在起作用，而不是因为任何缺乏秩序的性质。
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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?
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
你可能不认为程序员是艺术家，但编程是一种极具创造性的职业。它是基于逻辑的创造力。
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。
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。
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。
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。