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The computer might appear to be a dehumanizing factor, but the opposite is in fact true.
表面看起來，計算機似是一種導致人類特性喪失的因素，但實際情況恰恰相反。
It is already leading the consumer society away from the mass-produced homogeneity of the assembly line.
計算機正引導著消費者群體擺脫由流水線大批生產(chǎn)出來的各種產(chǎn)品千篇一律的狀況。
The chip will make it possible some day to have shoes and clothes made to order-the production commanded and directed by computer-within minutes.
將來總有一天，集成電路片會使根據(jù)顧客要求定制鞋子和衣服的程序--由計算機控制進行-有可能在幾分鐘內(nèi)完成。
The custom-made object, now restricted to the rich, will be within everyone's reach.
目前這種定制生產(chǎn)的產(chǎn)品還只有少數(shù)富人能夠享用，到那時便人人都可享用了。
In no area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care.
在醫(yī)療衛(wèi)生領域中，個人服務比在美國生活的其他任何領域都顯得重要。
Here, too, the computer has be-come a humanizing factor;
在這個領域中，計算機的參與也同樣會成為一個人性化的因素。
the patient tends to give a more candid account of his symptoms, and medical history to a machine programmed to ask the proper preliminary questions than to a harassed regimen and possibly intimidating doctor.
若由一臺計算機按編好的程序來恰當?shù)叵虿∪颂釂栆粤私獠∏槎皇怯梢晃黄v不堪、模樣可能有點嚇人的醫(yī)生來詢問病情的話，病人一定會更準確詳盡地說出自己的癥狀、飲食習慣和病史。
At a few hospitals, computers are programmed not only to remind the pharmacy department to prepare prescriptions
在有些醫(yī)院里，計算機有編好的程序用來提醒藥房按處方配藥，
but also to alert nurses to give the proper dosage at the right time.
并提示護士按時按量讓患者服藥。
Next to health, heart and home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the automobile. Computer technology may make the car, as we know it, a Smithsonian antique.
對于流動性強的美國人來說，除了健康、愛情和美滿家庭之外，幸福還有賴于汽車。計算機技術有可能會使我們現(xiàn)在所熟悉的汽車成為博物館里的古董。
In addition to the microprocessors under the hood that will help the auto operate more efficiently,
除了裝在發(fā)動機罩底上的微型處理器有助于提高汽車運行效率外，
tiny computers will ease tensions and make life simpler for the drive and passengers too.
微型計算機還能簡化汽車操縱程序，提高安全系數(shù)，使開車人和坐車人既放心又省心。
Ford Motor Co. now offers buyers of its Continental Mark Vs an option called miles to empty.
福特汽車公司現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)可以向購買該公司所產(chǎn)大陸牌V型轎車的用戶提供一種叫燃料里程計量器的東西。
At the push of a button, the driver can get a read-out on the amount of fuel in the tank, and the number of miles he can expect to go (at current speed) before a refill is necessary.
司機只需按下一個按鈕，即可從表上看出油箱中的現(xiàn)存油量及在有必要重新加油前他的汽車所能行駛(以當時的行速)的里程數(shù)。
