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

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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

Well, realize one of the themes in this course and really one of the themes in programming and solving any problem with a machine is going to be really to just take small bites one at a time out of these problems until the end result ultimately is that you've actually bitten off a fairly large fairly interesting problem and in the aggregate, you've actually implemented something pretty sophisticated.

好吧，让我们先想一下这件事带给我们的主题,编程和解决问题的思想,一台机器最开始只会一步一个脚印,沿着要解决的问题向前迈进,直到最终的结果出来,最后你会发现，你已经解决了一个相当大,相当有趣的问题，而这个问题在最初看起来确是相当复杂的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

If they're having a coronary artery bypass or they're having a heart transplant, then there's some period at which their normal heart - their heart is stopped and this machine assumes the functions of their heart.

病人在做冠状动脉搭桥手术,或者心脏移植手术时,病人自己的心脏,会停跳一段时间,而这台设备就能代替心脏工作

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So, we approached this machine here, the photograph is a little blurry, but it was very clear to us but if you zoom in on the screen and apologies for the reflections, again, this was just taken with my cell phone, you see what appear to be three huge buttons and at the top it said something like have a Charlie Card, which may very well apply to a lot of locals.

所以，我们走近这个机器，这个照片有点模糊，但对于我们来说是清楚地,如果我把它在屏幕上放大，我对这个影像感到抱歉,但是，这是用我的手机拍的,你们可以看到这里上面有三个很大的按钮,写了一些关于Charlie卡片的东西，对本地人来说是相当熟悉的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选