半个多世纪前，麻省理工学院（MIT）开设了高级视觉研究中心（CAVS），探索科技在文化中扮演的角色。
More than half a century ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) opened its Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) to explore the role of technology in culture.
我们现在认为的科技最发达的其中一个国家在进入19世纪时就“放弃了车轮”。
The nation that we now think of as one of the most technologically advanced entered the 19th century having "abandoned the wheel".
在这次可能成为21世纪模式的竞赛中，谷歌科技博览会的参赛者不必亲临现场参加较量，只要能够上网并且有想象力就足够了。
In what may become the 21st century model of competition, contestants in the Google Science Fair do not have to be physically in the same place to compete with each other.
事实上成功的故事也有很多，许多情侣都可以作证，他们都把科技称为21世纪的丘比特。
As many couples will attest, they have: success stories abound, crediting technology in one way or another as their 21st century Cupid.
但是，尽管在之后的200多年中我们在科技上已有众多突破，煤在21世纪仍作为一种重要燃料被继续使用。
But despite the scientific and technological breakthroughs of more than 200 years, coal continues to be an important fuel in the 21st century.
然而，如果我们非要从20世纪身上去寻找些闪光的东西，物理科技则首当其冲，从汽车飞机到电脑和互联网。
But if the 20th century was distinguished by anything from its predecessors, that distinctive feature was physical technology, from motor cars and aeroplanes to computers and the Internet.
从一开始研究21世纪科技进步趋势时，加来先生便意识到历史长河中充满了太多未实现的预测。
Setting out to chart the direction technological progress will take in the 21st century, Mr Kaku is aware that history is replete with unfulfilled prophecies.
借助我的智能手机下载此次展览的软件，我可以更全面的观看和了解那些艺术作品，这真是现代科技与15世纪艺术的完美结合。
After downloading the show's app on my smart phone, I was perfectly equipped to see and learn. It was a charming juxtaposition of modern technology and 15th-century art.
这并不容易，美国曾经花半个世纪来安顿那些由于科技变化而无用的技术工人。
This is not easy; the United States has failed over half a century to take care of workers whose skills have been made irrelevant by technological change.
20世纪在科技方面有许多非凡的成就，原子能的利用就是最了不起的成就之一。
The 20th century saw many wonderful achievements in science and technology, the harnessing of the power of the atom being one of the most remarkable.
他必须懂得解剖学，必须对科技了如指掌，直到20世纪的数代人全被他蒙骗了。
He had to have a grasp of anatomy and he had to have at his fingertips a technology which would completely fool everyone until the 20th century.
进入新世纪以来，科技突飞猛进，我不禁想，今天的这些科技会对明天孩子们的生活产生什么影响呢？
We've made huge technology leaps since the new century began, which got me thinking about the difference today's technology will make in the lives of tomorrow's kids.
研究人员要使用他们的这种科技来制作出一张太阳的图像，图像的灵感来自于一位17世纪炼金术士的绘画作品(太阳是炼金术士表示黄金的标志)。
The researchers used their technique to create an image of the sun inspired by the drawings of Robert Fludd, a 17th-century alchemist (the sun is the alchemists' symbol for gold).
二十世纪九十年代，有超过2000家的科技企业在奥斯汀开业。
Over 2, 000 other technology firms set up shop in Austin during the 1990s.
在19世纪20年代末，该基金主要依赖科技股，因此获得了短期的升值。
In the late 1990s the fund bet heavily on technology stocks, giving a brief boost to asset values.
然而一个广泛的研究发现在20世纪70年代早期和90年代晚期之间美国大学培养的科学，科技，工程和数学领域的学生远远超过了需求。
Yet an extensive study found that between the early 1970s and late 1990s American colleges produced more than enough graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths to meet demand.
根据这项研究，英国仍然稳定地处以第3位，但是它的份额也从7.1%跌倒了6.5%，”知识，网络和国家：在21世纪都要进行全球科技合作。
The United Kingdom held steady in third place, but its share dropped from 7.1% to 6.5%, according to the study, "Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st century."
大约在世纪之交，如同宇航员一样，其中最典型的就是那些“公路勇士”。由于轻装上阵，他们看上去很潇洒，就像萨佛(PauloSaffo，未来科技学家)所说，他们是过渡的一代人，他们的生活开始变得像寄居蟹。
Around the turn of the century, as some astronauts, typically executive road warriors, got smarter about packing light, says Mr Saffo, they graduated to an intermediate stage, becoming hermit crabs.
几年前我曾买过一个老式的手动打字机来写情书给我当时的女朋友(也就是我现在的妻子——这还要感谢20世纪50年代的科技啊！)
A few years ago I bought an old-fashioned manual typewriter to write love letters to my then-girlfriend (now-wife-thanks, 1950s technology!)
从原始的小孔成像和早期惊人的彩色摄影，到20世纪的35mm的高科技，这些到了现在都已经过时，而相机也成为手机标配功能。
As cameras become standard features in cell phones a look at the history of photography
然而星期四闭幕的纽约时装周，却是建立在20世纪高科技的一方面：流线型。
Yet New York Fashion Week, which closed Thursday, was based on a facet of 20th-century high tech: Streamlining.
你是否认为21世纪的科技革新是人类史无前例的一次大爆发？或许你该读一下19世纪前半期的科技史了。
Those who think of the 21st century as a headily unprecedented rush of innovation should pause to consider the first half of the 19th.
这似乎是对这中世纪的祸害在科技上取得的完全胜利的最后标志。
That seemed the ultimate symbol of technology's triumph over a medieval scourge.
几乎每一个21世纪的家庭都离不开稀土金属；在全球范围内，他们还被广泛的应用于从武器制造到平板电视和移动电话机等类的高科技产品。
These metals are found in almost every 21st Century household, and used globally to make high-tech products, from weapons, to flat-screen TVs and mobile phones.
她说：“现在的生物科技就像一个中世纪的行业协会。
She says: "Nowadays, biotechnology is like a medieval guild.
我已经要求科技部举办一个国家级的庆典，以庆祝我们20世纪卓越的科学家钱德拉·塞卡教授的百年诞辰。
I have asked our the Ministry of Science and Technology to undertake a national celebration of the birth centenary of Professor S.Chandrasekhar, one of the outstanding scientists of the 20th century.
我已经要求科技部举办一个国家级的庆典，以庆祝我们20世纪卓越的科学家钱德拉·塞卡教授的百年诞辰。
I have asked our the Ministry of Science and Technology to undertake a national celebration of the birth centenary of Professor S.Chandrasekhar, one of the outstanding scientists of the 20th century.
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