And the relay had closed on the poor creature, crushing it to death. The defense department didn't care about the loss of a moth.

可怜的虫子碾死了，国防部门并不关心,一个虫子的死活。

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be that with the Department of Defense or the State Department,

在国防部或者国务院，

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It was invented by a mathematician called Bellman. And he was at the time being paid by the Defense Department to work on something else. And he didn't want them to know what he was doing. So he made up a name that he was sure they would have no clue what it meant.

一点儿道理也没有,它是一个叫Bellman的数学家发明的,那时受聘于国防部研究一些其它东西,它不想让它们知道她在研究什么,所以它编造了一个,它们不会知道意义的词语。

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