从字母表,到钟表和印刷,每一项新的技术都深刻地改变了人类思考的方式。
From the alphabet to clocks and printing, every major new technology has profoundly altered the way in which humans think.
只是在过去的30年间,计算器的引入才使手表才变得智能化;而也仅仅是最近的几年中,计时器和卫星技术才运用在了原子钟表里。
Only in the last 30 years have they gotten smarter with the introduction of things like calculators and, more recently, chronographs and satellites tied to the atomic clock.
1967年,瑞士人已经获取了数字技术的专利权,但瑞士的钟表制造商却对此不屑一顾,依然钟情于沿用了几十年的传统制造方法。
In 1967, when the digital technology was patented by the Swiss, they rejected it in favor of the traditional techniques they had been using to make watches for decades.
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