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MACHINES ARE OUR SERVANTS
機(jī)器是我們的仆人
Have you ever watched in wonder some great, throbbing steam locomotive or a roaring printing press? Surely you have ridden a bicycle, and perhaps you have run a sewing machine. Maybe you have a toy motor or an electric train. These are all machines—machines to give us pleasure or to do our work.
你是否曾驚奇地看到過某種巨大的、搏動(dòng)的蒸汽機(jī)車或轟鳴的印刷機(jī)？你肯定騎過自行車，也許還開過縫紉機(jī)。也許你有一個(gè)玩具發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)或電動(dòng)火車。這些都是機(jī)器——給我們快樂或做我們的工作的機(jī)器。
You will be surprised if you count the number of machines you see and use every day. And if these machines were suddenly taken away, you would be very much upset. You turn a faucet to get water, and it is a machine that pumps the water to your faucet. Machines make the electricity that lights your home. The milk that you drink is probably put into the bottle by a bottling-machine. Even an egg beater is a machine.
如果你每天都數(shù)一數(shù)你看到和使用的機(jī)器的數(shù)量，你會(huì)感到驚訝的。如果這些機(jī)器突然被拿走，你會(huì)非常難過。你打開水龍頭取水，它是一個(gè)機(jī)器，把水泵到你的水龍頭。機(jī)器產(chǎn)生的電可以點(diǎn)亮你的家。你喝的牛奶可能是由裝瓶機(jī)裝進(jìn)瓶里的。甚至打蛋器也是個(gè)機(jī)器。
So, you see, machines are really our servants. They help us to do things in easier ways, and they make it possible to do things faster. Machines, we say, do the work of the world.
所以，你看，機(jī)器實(shí)際上是我們的仆人。它們幫助我們以更簡(jiǎn)單的方式做事，使我們能夠更快地做事。機(jī)器，我們說，做世界的工作。
But we must never forget that all these machines we enjoy came from the careful, patient work of men. Even though you and I cannot possibly understand how some powerful or delicate machine works; even though no person could possibly do what the machine does, yet some man or group of men made that great or delicate machine that means so much to us all.
但我們絕不能忘記，我們所享受的所有這些機(jī)器都來自于人類的細(xì)心和耐心工作。即使你和我都不可能理解某個(gè)強(qiáng)大或精密的機(jī)器是如何工作的；盡管沒有人能做這臺(tái)機(jī)器所能做的事，但一些人或一群人制造出了這臺(tái)對(duì)我們所有人都意義重大的偉大或精致的機(jī)器。
Some of the most interesting stories to read are those that tell how machines work and how men have thought, and planned and studied to invent machines which make life easier for us all.
其中一些最有趣的故事講述了機(jī)器是如何工作的，人類是如何思考的，并計(jì)劃和研究發(fā)明機(jī)器，使我們所有人的生活更容易。
