W. David Stahlman, a professor of psychology at UCLA, recently purchased one machine to use in his research on hermit crab behavior.

加州大学洛杉矶分校的心理学教授W·大卫·斯塔尔曼最近就购买了一台机器用于他的寄居蟹行为的研究中。

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He refused to develop projection technology, reasoning that if he made and sold projectors, then exhibitors would purchase only one machine—a projector—from him instead of several.

他拒绝研发投影技术，理由是：如果他研发并且销售放映机，电影放映者们就只会从他那里买一台机器，而不是几台。

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In the phonograph parlors, customers listened to recordings through individual ear tubes, moving from one machine to the next to hear different recorded speeches or pieces of music.

在留声机厅里，顾客通过单只耳道听录音，从一台机器转到另一台，听不同的演讲录音或音乐片段。

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But the Osborne One was about the size of a sewing machine and weighed twenty-four pounds.

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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

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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。

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These calculators are typical of the one-machine-one-job principle on which office mechanisation has so far proceeded, and it is a principle that some consider totally unsuited to electronic techniques.

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The Flip took off originally because of its sublime simplicity: it was a one-button machine that did one thing and had one port for both recharging and sharing data.

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Bars tie users to one machine -- the machine it has been downloaded into.

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