And there are existing methods, like a machine that can quickly identify chemicals in pills to confirm if the pills are real.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

That would that would give rise to a perpetual motion machine, breaking of the second law. It can't happen.

否则就会使,得永动机出现，打破第二定律那是不可能的。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

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

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

OK. In the length of time it takes for the light to get from that bulb to the table, this machine processes two operations.

好，在灯光从灯泡到,桌子的这段时间内，电脑已经进行了两次运算了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The railroad company planned to buy the machine if it worked as well as the salesman said.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

If a slave dies you got to buy a new machine, and while he's alive you got to feed him.

如果一个奴隶死掉了,你就得买台新的,他活着时你还要养着他

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

As the cow eats, a robotic arm cleans and connects the animal to the milking machine.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

But when I think about the question, would I want to spend my life ? hooked up to an experience machine?

但当我想到这个问题，我是否愿意让一生,在体验机器上度过时？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It uses an MRI or magnetic resonance imaging machine to look for abnormalities in the brain.

VOA: special.2010.12.21

It's hard to answer questions and whatnot and you don't necessarily have access to the same tools unless you yourself go through the process of configuring your machine manually by following many long sequences of steps.

所以很难说会出现什么情况,你们不能,用同一台机器，除非你们自己按照一系列,冗长的步骤手工配置,你们自己的电脑。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

One day,a salesman came to the work area with a new drilling machine powered by steam.

VOA: special.2010.09.04

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

"The brain-machine interface is a system that allows disabled people, people suffering from physical disabilities to communicate with external world and also to control devices."

VOA: special.2011.04.04

So I'm going to call that chips implanted in the brain to control prosthetics, but I'm going to make it a little bit more general and call a brain-machine interface.

我要谈谈,能控制假肢的植入性脑芯片,我会简要的谈到,我们把它称为脑机接口

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.05.25

They invented the paper machine so they could mass-produce paper-- it didn't have to be handmade anymore-- and they invented wood pulp paper so it didn't have to be made out of cloth anymore.

于是人们发明了造纸机从而可以大量生产纸-,而不再需要手工制作-,后来人们还发明了木浆纸,所以后来不再用布料来制纸。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

You need to, if you want something to be printed out inside your code, you need to tell the machine to do that.

你需要，如果你想要,在代码中显示一些东西的话，你需要告诉机器这么做。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

This makes it easier to form into shapes by hand or by machine.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

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

If life on the experience machine is not everything, then there's more to the best possible life than getting the insides right.

如果体验机器上的人生并非一切，那么获得最好人生需要的,就不止是内在的正确。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There was no water or machine to wash clothes in their home.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

And you might say, wait a minute, isn't that a string, and the answer's no, I didn't say it's a string by putting quotes around it And notice how the machine responds differently to it.

你会想，等等，这不是个字符串么？,答案是否定的，我没用引号包围它就意味着它不是字符串,请注意计算机对它给出了不同的反应。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

And inside of the machine, and things we'll talk about, there is a process that will allow that sequence to be executed as described in that recipe, so it can behave like any thing that I can describe in one of those recipes.

在机器里面，还有我们要说的，里面有一个我们允许的,在方法中描述的,将要被执行的序列的过程，因此它可以像我在方法之中,描述的任意一种那样来表现。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He developed a machine to aid breathing.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Ask yourself, how would you feel if you discovered now that you have been living your life ? hooked up to an experience machine?

问问你自己，你会有何感受,如果你发现此时此刻,你的人生,一直都是在体验机器上度过？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So it's easy to see why we might be tempted to say no mere machine could think or reason or have beliefs or desires.

所以很容易明白,为什么机器无法做到,我们刚才讨论的那些特质

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选