This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

We saw some students who are trying to make a machine that automatically decorates cakes.

我们看到有些同学在制造能自动装饰蛋糕的机器。

我遇到的天才们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The question is, "Could there be a machine that could feel something, could have an emotion of some sort?"

能否存在这样的机器,它可以感觉到某物,可以有某种情感

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And unlike a machine, the skin-to-skin contact provides two kinds of warmth physical and emotional.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Like how can you possibly figure that out with actually compelling a machine to do it for you and sure enough we chatted for a few moments, I kind of gently pointed out well it's kind of like problem 7 last year.

就好像去逼计算机为你做这件事,就能解决问题一样,我们确实谈过这个问题，我委婉地告诉他,这种情况与我们去年讲过问题7类似。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Much greater pressure can be produced by using a machine, a hydraulic jack.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

Chances are you had to pay something for them; they are like a machine.

有时候你还得为他们花钱,他们就如同一台台机器

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Even if he was on this train." His moving to the city is an attempt to move away from the natural world and become a thing,a machine.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

Suppose instead, I want a machine that can take a recipe, the description of a sequence of steps, take that as its input, and then that machine will now act like what is described in that recipe.

假设换成这个，我想要一台可以安装描述，一系列步骤的结果的方法的机器，把那个当做输入设备，然后那台机器可以像方法中,描述的那样运行了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He taught himself to be a pilot. During World War II, he designed a machine used to train military aircraft crews to fire guns at enemy aircraft.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

Then he had a machine that granted each pigeon one piece of corn every fifteen seconds; that's very, frustratingly slow for a hungry pigeon to get one piece every fifteen seconds.

他们设计了一个能保证,每隔15秒给鸽子喂一玉米粒的装置,对饥饿的鸽子来说是杯水车薪,每15秒才只有一粒玉米

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One place near her home had a machine that played records.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

This particular one down here, this portion here is a heart/lung machine and this is a machine that can take over the function of a patient's heart and lungs during the period when they're undergoing open heart surgery, for example.

下面这是一个特别的设备,这一块是,心肺机,这台机器能够,在病人接受心脏手术的时候,替代病人的,心脏和肺的功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It also is probably what a number of reporters said earlier this month when they were permitted to see a machine that will be sent to the planet Mars.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

Human beings can be reduced to their movable parts much like a machine.

人类被浓缩到那些可运动的部分,就像一个机器。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They would go on a machine that sent images by radio.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

There is no machine yet that can recognize faces or understand sentences at the level of a two-year-old human.

至今还没有任何机器,能够做到面孔识别,或是理解两岁儿童能够轻易理解的句子

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The dog's legs had been cut off in a machine.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

laundry. We used to have a washing machine and a dryer in our house.

那就是洗衣服。过去我们家有洗衣机和烘干机。

与众不同的纽约 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A machine called a press is often used.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

We want to say, "Well, gee, that wasn't produced by a machine.

我们想说：“哎呀，那不是由机器制造的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He developed a machine to aid breathing.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

So perhaps the argument should go "Yeah, yeah, thinking, that's the sort of thing a machine can do.

所以,或许这个论证应该这样表达,对,思考,机器可以思考

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Last week,while conducting his 17th immigration sweep, he brought out his "big gun," a machine gun.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

We're typically going to use as basic steps the built-in primitives that a machine comes with.

我们要用计算机内置的原始体来,定义基本的步骤，换句话说。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The term today most often is used to describe a powerful machine designed to clear away trees and other big objects.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

In fact, a French disciple of Hobbes in the next century, a man named La Mettrie, wrote a treatise very much following in the lines of L'Homme Machine Hobbes called L'Homme Machine, " or literally, Man a Machine.

实际上，在下个世纪霍布斯有一个法国的继承者，叫La，Mettrie，他写了一篇论文,在文字上紧紧跟随霍布斯的风格,题目叫，字面上理解，就是“人是机器。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She turned an old industrial machine repair shop into a warm and inviting space for exhibitions,offices and classrooms.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

If you have some plain text, some message that you want to send, well, you can encrypt it or you can scramble it using a key, a secret key, which might be a physical machine like the Enigma 13 or it might be a number like 13.

如果你有没有加密的文本，你想要寄送的一些消息,你就可以加密它,或者你可以用一个密钥使其变得混乱，那就像一个英格玛的物理装置,或者他就是一个数字。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选