他们想设计一台既美观又实用的机器。

They wanted to design a machine that was both attractive and practical.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

机器在金属薄板上冲出一排孔。

The machine punches a row of holes in the metal sheet.

《牛津词典》

建议每年一定把机器检修一次。

It is strongly recommended that the machines should be checked every year.

《牛津词典》

That's not just a set of functions--variables, as one might say in the lab.It's produced by genius.

它不仅仅只是一套机器，像人们在实验室所见的一样多变，它是由天才创作的。

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But Descartes said that can't be because there are things that humans do that no machine could ever do.

但是笛卡尔否定了这一观点,因为有些事情,人类可以做到,机器永远不可能做到

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One possibility, of course, is, why not say that people are just robots as well and we get our commands from outside?

当然有一种说法是,为什么不说人类也是,也是由外部指令控制着的机器人呢

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