The three of us stood around the machine nodding wisely.

我们3个人站在机器周围，明白地点点头。

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Ensure there is a free flow of air around the machine.

要确保机器周围空气畅通。

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A group of corn farmers stands huddled around an agronomist and his computer on the side of an irrigation machine in central South Africa.

南非中部，一群玉米农挤成一团，围着一名农学家和他放在灌溉机旁的电脑。

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And you might say, wait a minute, isn't that a string, and the answer's no, I didn't say it's a string by putting quotes around it And notice how the machine responds differently to it.

你会想，等等，这不是个字符串么？,答案是否定的，我没用引号包围它就意味着它不是字符串,请注意计算机对它给出了不同的反应。

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Patients on the CardioWest heart, the successor to the Jarvik-7, have to wheel around a machine the size of a small refrigerator and are confined to a hospital.

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The workshop space where it stands will be turned into a gallery which will allow visitors to walk all around the machine and look at "exciting interactive displays" telling the Colossus story.

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Viewing angles are sufficiently wide (you could accommodate three to four people huddled around this machine) -- that is, until you tip the screen forward or back, in which case images wash out quickly.

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