This is a story about mechanical objects, -- some of which move-- -- remember those smiling houses in the background-- and some of which are stationary, but they're all mechanical objects.

这是一个关于会活动的，机械的故事-,还记得那些作为背景微笑的房子吗？,它们不会动但也都是机械的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Surrounded--Surrounding--To complete a mechanical metaphor that would have led Descartes to despair-- Thank you, Koleen.

这也是个可以让笛卡尔绝望的,机械性隐喻,谢谢你,柯琳

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So if you've ever seen or used an old school typewriter, you might recall that when you're typing something out on an old mechanical typewriter, - when you like hit the char-- when you hit the enter key to move the head back to the left hand side to the next line or you would pull down some lever, it was really a two part process.

如果你们有谁曾经看过或用过老式打字机，可能还记得，当你在,这种老式打字机上打字的时候，当你-,敲入回车键，跳转到,下一行的最左边，或者,拉一下杆，这个需要两步走。

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The connective tissue is one of those four main types of tissue, they're supporting material - supporting tissues that surround other cells in the body and give the cell - and give the body much of its mechanical property.

结缔组织是四种主要组织类型中的一种,它们是支持物--是,包围在体内其它细胞周围的支持组织,并赋予身体大部分的机械性能

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