One day,a salesman came to the work area with a new drilling machine powered by steam.

VOA: special.2010.09.04

on the one hand, " and "Why are the things that are missing ?" from the experience machine worth having?"

此外还有，“为什么体验机器里没有的东西,“值得拥有“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Some children bring all the tools they are on and one of the boys share he wants to bring a ice cream machine.

一些孩子画上了他们喜欢的所有工具,其中一个男孩,告诉大家他想带一台冰激凌机。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He considered spending more than one thousand dollars for an electric milking machine.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

There might have been one Coke vending machine at my high school, if any, I don't even remember.

我高中可能有一台可乐自动售卖机,我记不太清楚了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

One place near her home had a machine that played records.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

What that basically says is the following: in an interpreted language, you take what's called the source code, the thing you write, it may go through a simple checker but it basically goes to the interpreter, that thing inside the machine that's going to control the flow of going through each one of the instructions, and give you an output.

也就说，如果是解释语言的话：,你要写一些叫做，源码的东西，你写的东西会经过一个简单的过滤器,然后解释器会处理你的源码，解释器会产生一个,逐条读取你的源码的,控制流，然后返回一个输出结果。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In the early years of communist rule in China, a sewing machine was one of the so-called big items that indicated a high living standard.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Then he had a machine that granted each pigeon one piece of corn every fifteen seconds; that's very, frustratingly slow for a hungry pigeon to get one piece every fifteen seconds.

他们设计了一个能保证,每隔15秒给鸽子喂一玉米粒的装置,对饥饿的鸽子来说是杯水车薪,每15秒才只有一粒玉米

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Well, realize one of the themes in this course and really one of the themes in programming and solving any problem with a machine is going to be really to just take small bites one at a time out of these problems until the end result ultimately is that you've actually bitten off a fairly large fairly interesting problem and in the aggregate, you've actually implemented something pretty sophisticated.

好吧，让我们先想一下这件事带给我们的主题,编程和解决问题的思想,一台机器最开始只会一步一个脚印,沿着要解决的问题向前迈进,直到最终的结果出来,最后你会发现，你已经解决了一个相当大,相当有趣的问题，而这个问题在最初看起来确是相当复杂的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Now one of the big advantages of plasmids,I already mentioned, is that you can take this plasmid and a plasmid is one - you can think of it as a highly tuned machine for copying itself.

质粒的一个很大优势,我提到过,是你可以用这个质粒,而质粒是一个--,你可以把质粒想成,一个高度调谐的自我复制的机器

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

This particular one down here, this portion here is a heart/lung machine and this is a machine that can take over the function of a patient's heart and lungs during the period when they're undergoing open heart surgery, for example.

下面这是一个特别的设备,这一块是,心肺机,这台机器能够,在病人接受心脏手术的时候,替代病人的,心脏和肺的功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So one of the things that the Allies very specifically wanted to do in World War II was to hijack one of these devices, take it from a U-boat because if they had this physical machine, certainly can they start decrypting then the German messages.

所以同盟国在二战中想做的一件事,就是劫持其中一个装置，携带在U型潜水艇中，因为如果他们拥有了这种物理装置，他们就可以解码,德国人的密文。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选