Though a far cry from the Nexus-6 models of Dick's prolific imagination, personal robots seem to be shrugging off their science-fiction trappings and becoming very much a technological reality.

虽然与迪克多产的幻想作品中的纳克斯- 6型差距很大，但个人机器人似乎正在摆脱它们的科幻困境，成为实实在在的技术现实。

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From the sound of that blood-curdling cry, one would have thought someone had thrown me off the truck.

如果当时有有在场，听到我那声嘶力竭的叫声，一定会以为我被人扔下卡车了呢。

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This new sanctimoniousness, said officials, was a precaution to ward off a hue-and-cry from Jordan's Islamists, already restive over King Abdullah's hands-off approach to the looming war on Iraq.

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Given how hard it is to get movies off the ground, why are so many adapted from works that cry out to be made into movies in the first place?

NEWYORKER: Nine