谁发明了蒸汽机？
烧煤的蒸汽机开始占领市场，于是水车很快就过时了。
The coal-fired steam engine was taking over, and the waterwheel was fast becoming obsolete.
从某种意义上说，弗洛伊德的观点视我们为“蒸汽机”。
The Freudian perspective, in a sense: sees us as "steam engines".
这台发动机帮助解决了煤矿地下水的排放问题，并增加了其他地方蒸汽机所需的煤炭产量。
The engine helped solve the problem of draining coal mines of groundwater and increased the production of coal needed to power steam engines elsewhere.
在一些工业地区，马匹正沿着金属轨道拉着满载货物、带法兰轮子的马车；固定的蒸汽机在工厂和矿井里噗噗作响。
In some industrial regions, heavily laden wagons, with flanged wheels, were being hauled by horses along metal rails; and the stationary steam engine was puffing in the factory and mine.
由于蒸汽机是靠燃煤来驱动的，因此一些大型棉纺织厂就不再像那些使用水力驱动机器的工厂一样，必须依河而建。
Since the steam engine was fired by coal, the large mills did not need to be located by rivers, as had mills that used water-driven machines.
不幸的是，这个早期的工厂遇到了许多可再生能源形态都遇到的问题：韦河的水流不稳定，而水车很快就被蒸汽机取代了。
Unfortunately this early plant experienced the problem common to many forms of renewable energy: the flow in the Wey River was unreliable, and the waterwheel was soon replaced by a steam engine.
18世纪晚期，詹姆斯·瓦特设计了一种高效的、商业上可行的蒸汽机，随着它的使用成本越来越低，它很快被应用于各种工业用途。
In the late 1700s James Watt designed an efficient and commercially viable steam engine that was soon applied to a variety of industrial uses as it became cheaper to use.
驱动蒸汽机车的能量可以储存在除水以外的其他物质中。
Energy to drive a steam locomotive can be stored in other materials besides water.
在蒸汽机的类比中，言语攻击可能会释放出一些具有攻击性的蒸汽。
In the steam-engine analogy, verbal aggression may vent some of the aggressive steam.
当时人们用蒸汽机来拉车，烟雾弥漫，噪音嘈杂，乘客肯定相当不舒服。
Steam engines were used to pull the carriages and it must have been fairly unpleasant for the passsengers, with all the smoke and noise.
然而，蒸汽机的出现引发了铁路运输的彻底变革，并巩固和拓展了工业革命的成果。
However, the arrival of the steam engine initiated a complete transformation in rail transportation, entrenching and expanding the Industrial Revolution.
连接在蒸汽机上的旋转式发动机使轴承转动，机器得以驱动，从而使得利用蒸汽动力纺线和织布的工厂出现。
A rotary engine attached to the steam engine enabled shafts to be turned and machines to be driven, resulting in mills using steam power to spin and weave cotton.
到了1800年，一千多台蒸汽机在不列颠群岛运行，直到19世纪30年代，英国一直垄断着蒸汽机的生产。
By 1800 more than a thousand steam engines were in use in the British Isles, and Britain retained a virtual monopoly on steam engine production until the 1830s.
法国人丹尼斯·帕潘在詹姆斯·瓦特出生前近百年就有了制造蒸汽机的想法，但是他从来没有足够的资金去建造这样一台机器。
The Frenchman Denis Papin had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before James Watt was born, but Denis never had enough money to build one.
蒸汽动力不仅可以用于纺织棉花和轧铁；新世纪早期，蒸汽机的使用同样大大提高了造纸的效率，蒸汽动力一天所生产的纸张总量是单个工人一天生产纸张总量的10倍。
Steam power did not merely spin cotton and roll iron; early in the new century, it also multiplied ten times over the amount of paper that a single worker could produce in a day.
19世纪是蒸汽机车鼎盛的时代。
因为瓦特并非真正发明蒸汽机的人。
1765年詹姆斯·瓦特的高效蒸汽机。
早起的蒸汽机车的模型。
博尔顿和瓦特共同努力以倡导蒸汽机在棉纺工业的使用；
Boulton and Watt worked together to pioneer the use of the steam engine in the cotton spinning industry;
蒸汽机早期用于矿井和铁路抽水来转移其周围的煤矿。
Steam engines were originally designed to pump water out of the pits and railways to move coal around them.
从某种程度上说，人们可能会回到旧蒸汽机工作在田野上的时代。
It would be a return, in a way, to a time when older steam engines once worked in the fields.
蒸汽机的核心是汽缸。它一端密封，另一端有个可以移动的活塞。
The core of a steam engine is a cylinder that is sealed at one end and has a moving piston at the other.
但是当巧匠们接手之后，蒸汽机的效率一下子变成了四倍。
But when the tweakers took over the efficiency of the steam engine swiftly quadrupled.
目前有几种正在研究中，比如电力引擎、燃气轮机、蒸汽机等。
There are several possibilities being researched at present, such as electric, gas turbine, and "steam" engines.
到1800年，瓦特蒸汽机比它的前辈卖的更好，他们将其销往全世界。
By 1800, Watt's version was outselling its predecessor, and they were shipping it across the world.
蒸汽机、晶体管、互联网——每一个想法似乎都从天而降，从根本上改变了这个世界。
The steam engine, the transistor, the world Wide web-each of these ideas seemed to emerge from nowhere to change our world in fundamental ways.
蒸汽机、晶体管、互联网——每一个想法似乎都从天而降，从根本上改变了这个世界。
The steam engine, the transistor, the world Wide web-each of these ideas seemed to emerge from nowhere to change our world in fundamental ways.
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