"Sometimes, I feel as plain and insignificant as a gear in a giant machine," said Lydia.

“有时候，我觉得自己像一台巨型机器上的一个齿轮一样普通而平凡。”利迪娅说。

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If we compare the dinner party to a giant machine, sponsors must be the core components.

晚会就像一架庞大运行的机器，而赞助商好比那些核心关键的机器部件。

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Did you imagine a conveyor belt carrying live chickens into a giant machine, set to the classic cartoon theme "Powerhouse"?

你是否想象过这一幕：一条传送带载满扑腾着翅膀的活鸡，全部送进一个大机器里发电？这一幕常常是老式卡通片的的主题之一。

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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

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Along these lines, last June, Google connected together 16, 000 computer processors into a giant machine vision learning neural net and let them loose on YouTube.

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It looked like a giant washing machine in front of my apartment.

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But another big factor is in the way the health care system, like a giant, automated machine, tends to push patients into particular outcomes.

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