And even though it's an imitation, in many ways, the machine that we've developed can operate more than we can ourselves.

虽然只是一个仿制品，在很多年内，这个我们发明的机器能够,比我们做的更多。

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This was a failure because people could not go near the tickle machine without convulsing in laughter.

这是一个失败的发明,因为人们还没靠近挠痒痒的机器,就已经被它的模样逗笑了

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And in fact, an example of a methodological attempt was done by Henry Gleitman at University of Pennsylvania, who built a tickle machine, which was this box with these two giant hands that went "r-r-r-r."

实际上,宾夕法尼亚大学的亨利·葛雷曼,曾经进行过研究方法上的尝试,他发明了一台挠痒痒的机器,这是一个装有两只大手的箱子,双手会不停的去挠痒痒

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