While not at all equally intrusive, the benefit of both the fictitious Babel Fish and today’s add-on is essentially the same: translation.

虽然上面提到的两者在侵入性方面并不等价，但在用途方面，本质上那假想的巴别鱼和今天我们要介绍的这款火狐扩展是一样的，那就是它们都可以当我们的翻译。

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Mr McFarland notes that some people try to game the Turk, by using software scripts to download a translation assignment, pass it through an online translation service such as AltaVista's Babel Fish, and then offer it up as finished work.

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