This electrical machine could send and receive "beeps" and other sounds over a wire.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.09.14

But because we're now programming a computer at a lower level and because as we said last week, you really have to be precise and then careful to instruct this machine, this fairly dumb machine that will only do what you tell it to do very specific instructions, do we have to use a more precise syntax than just a puzzle piece might have previously allowed.

但是我们是要在电脑的低平台上编程不是吗？,那我们就要像我上周提到过的那样，一定要小心，小心，再小心地,操纵这台又聋又哑的机器,它只会根据你敲进去的,特定指令来做事，所以我们必须使用非常精细的语法,而不是模模糊糊，让人费解的概念。

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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

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

This can be done with a shovel, hoe or sod-cutter machine.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

Now, the best possible response would be for the physicalist to say, "Here's how to build a machine that can be conscious in this sense.

物理主义者们现在,能做出的最好的回答就是,从这个意义上去理解,就能造出一台,具有意识的机器

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Okay, first of all, because everything relies on self-report there's no machine, for the most part, that can do objective measures of this, you don't really know when people are telling you what they're eating.

好,首先,因为任何事都是建立在自觉上,大多数环节没有机器参与,这样的方式比较主观,你并不需要,人们告诉你他们所吃的是否真实

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That's the question we're going to try and address. If we can do this, this is good, because first of all, it removes any questions about what machine I'm running on, it's talking about fundamentally, how hard is this problem, and the second thing is, it is going to do it specifically in terms of the input. Which is one of the things that I was worried about.

这是一个我们接下来要去,尝试和解决的问题，如果我们能做到的话会很不错，因为首先，它解决了结果可能和我,运行的计算机有关系的问题，因为这从根本了告诉了，我们这个问题的复杂度，第二件事情,就是这种方法可以依据输入的大小来计算,而这正是我最担心的地方。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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

No machine could do this because our capacity for language is unbounded and free.

机器并不具备语言能力,因为我们的语言能力,是不受控制的,是自由的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This is an example of a rudimentary brain machine interface.

这是一个脑机接口界面的示范

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Although it would make me very, very sad to discover this, I suppose it's possible some of you have such bad lives that moving on to the experience machine would be a step up.

虽然我会很难过，我想你们中有些人一生不顺,连接上体验机器可能是个好转。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

- Here, the secret is not a number 13, it's actually the build -- the diagram, the details, the gears, and the handles inside of this physical machine that constituted a secret.

这里，机密数字不是数字13，它实际上构造了-,一个图表，这个物理装置中的细节，传动装置，操纵,就构建成了一个机密。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now one of the big advantages of plasmids,I already mentioned, is that you can take this plasmid and a plasmid is one - you can think of it as a highly tuned machine for copying itself.

质粒的一个很大优势,我提到过,是你可以用这个质粒,而质粒是一个--,你可以把质粒想成,一个高度调谐的自我复制的机器

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

So one of the things that the Allies very specifically wanted to do in World War II was to hijack one of these devices, take it from a U-boat because if they had this physical machine, certainly can they start decrypting then the German messages.

所以同盟国在二战中想做的一件事,就是劫持其中一个装置，携带在U型潜水艇中，因为如果他们拥有了这种物理装置，他们就可以解码,德国人的密文。

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