“我知道我想成为一名工程师，因为我喜欢制造东西来帮助解决世界问题。”杜说。
"I know I want to be an engineer because I like building things to help solve world problems," says Du.
麻省理工学院化学工程教授迈克尔·斯特拉诺解释道：“我们正在思考如何设计植物来代替我们日常使用的东西的功能。”
"We're thinking about how we can engineer plants to replace functions of the things that we use every day," explained Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT.
你不会去谷歌上查找你并不知其存在的东西；而脑袋里能记住一些事实的能力是从事许多职业的先决条件——比如说，法律或工程。
You cannot look up on Google something you do not know exists; and the ability to hold facts in your head is a prerequisite for many careers-the law, say, or engineering.
本月，我将探讨计算机科学和软件工程中的并行的重要性，并且建议一些下一代计算机科学家应该储备的东西。
This month I'll look at the importance of concurrency in computer science and software engineering and suggest a few things in store for the next generation of computer scientists.
“十年以前，我们不知道如何制造出一个这样的东西。”杜克大学电子与计算机工程学院副教授，史蒂夫•卡莫如是说。
“Ten years ago we wouldn’t know how to make one, ” said Steve Cummer, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University Cummer.
“十年以前，我们不知道如何制造出一个这样的东西。”杜克大学电子与计算机工程学院副教授，史蒂夫•卡莫如是说。
“Ten years ago we wouldn’t know how to make one,” said Steve Cummer, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University Cummer.
这项工程几乎不会消耗任何东西，可是它会增加至关重要的碳吸收树木的储备同时美化我们的街道。
It would cost virtually nothing and add to our vital reservoir of carbon-absorbing trees and beautify our streets all in one.
我不相信一些神秘的魔幻的东西，我相信因果，物理，和工程。
I don't believe in like mystical magic stuff, I believe in cause and effect and physics and engineering.
鉴于一般计算机教授对真实的软件工程的了解程度，我宁可让这些孩子通过FogCreek的实习学到更多的东西。
And given how much the average CS professor knows about real-world software engineering, I think I'd rather have kids learn that stuff at an internship at Fog Creek.
微软工程师GregSullivan说，“我们进入这个行业以来，没有什么东西是一成不变的。”
"There isn't a thing about our approach to this business that we haven't changed," says Greg Sullivan, a Microsoft executive.
GoogleEarth上瞟一眼就能看到在尼罗河谷沿途以及远至三角洲东西部的沙漠地带，小规模的私人工程星罗棋布。
As a glance at Google Earth will show, smaller-scale private efforts have eaten up deserts all along the river valley and far to the east and west of the delta.
多数小行星是不规则的大石块儿，并且沿一个不规则的轴自转，工程师们需要确保他们能够控制住这样一个有潜在威胁的东西。
Most asteroids are irregular chunks of rock that spin chaotically along irregular axes.
它的面积只有当前工程图书馆的一半大，但是空间都是给人设计的，而不是给东西设计的。
It is only half the size of the current Engineering Library, but saves its space for people, not things.
从工程角度讲，细长形有个问题——没什么东西最好做成细长形，这样不稳定。
It's an engineering problem to be slender - nothing likes to be slender, it's not naturally stable.
就像一个电力工程师想要住进新房子，为其铺置新的电线线路，一个基因工程师不会想要将一些东西放置在一个会产生其他重要接触的地方。
"Like an electrical engineer who wants to go into a house and put in new wiring, [a genetic engineer] doesn't want to put something where there is another important contact," he says.
工程团队将需要完全的理解双向工程、调试、分析和其他更多的东西。
The engineering team would need to fully understand round-trip engineering, debugging, profiling, and more.
如果你是一位科学家或工程师，这种理念非常有价值；它会促使你将信息当成操作自如的东西。
If you were a scientist or an engineer, that idea was very liberating; it enabled you to treat information as a manipulable thing.
也许我们能选择种植些别的东西，或者运用基因工程技术，让玉米变得更加顽健。
Maybe we can choose to grow something else or genetically engineer that corn to make it more robust.
某处某人在会议室里拿着这个东西，而工程师蜷缩在角落里如同正在大便一样可笑。
Somewhere someone is holding this thing up in a corporate boardroom, and an engineer is sitting in the corner just going Shit.
这是可以使开发人员在不需要于周日下午叫上构建工程师就可以安全地运行构建的东西。
This is what can enable a developer to safely run a build without needing to involve a build engineer on a Sunday afternoon.
工程负责人唐伟民（音）说：“我们没有增删任何东西，我们将保持其原始样貌，即使这是件非常艰难的工作。
Tang Weimin, the project manager, said: "We are not adding or removing anything. We are keeping the original features intact, even though it makes it a much more difficult job.
算法也同样重要，从二分查找到各种排序，到图形遍历，一位明星工程师必须知道并内在消化这些基础东西。
And the algorithms are just as important - from binary search to different sorts to graph traversals, a rockstar engineer must know and internalize the basics.
推出一项工程的唯一理由是要改变什么东西，而我想知道你打算做什么和将会带来的影响。
The only reason to launch a project is to change something, and I want to know what you're going to do and what impact it's going to have.
也许你认为制造用来发现癌症的产品的这种工作环境压力一定很大，但是许多生物医学工程师相信他们在制造的东西是可以拯救生命的。
One would think developing products to detect cancer might make for a stressful environment, but many biomedical engineers embrace the fact that the tools they're creating could save a life.
在定义过组成开发环境的元素之后，什么是开发环境体系架构工程师所关注的东西呢？
Having defined the elements that make up a development environment, what is it that the development environment architect focuses on?
氦气球因拉高东西而闻名，一组工程师之中一人说道，但他也是把报废的卫星拖回地球的一个好方法。
Helium balloons are known for pulling things up, but they could be a great way to drag defunct satellites down to Earth, a team of engineers says.
如果你现在环顾一下校园，你会发现许多在建工程，许多东西都得到重新粉刷和改造。
If you look up around this campus now, you'll see a lot of construction, a lot of things are being spruced up and improved.
也正如美国儿科学会的一位医生所说：“如果你把全世界的最好的工程师都聚集起来，让他们设计一种可以完美地堵住孩子们的嘴的东西，你找不出任何一种东西可以比热狗做的更棒。”
To wit: "If you were to take the best engineers in the world and asked them to design a perfect plug for a child's airway, you couldn't do better than a hot dog, " one AAP doctor said.
也正如美国儿科学会的一位医生所说：“如果你把全世界的最好的工程师都聚集起来，让他们设计一种可以完美地堵住孩子们的嘴的东西，你找不出任何一种东西可以比热狗做的更棒。”
To wit: "If you were to take the best engineers in the world and asked them to design a perfect plug for a child's airway, you couldn't do better than a hot dog, " one AAP doctor said.
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