但他所指的奇迹是关于科学技术的，这样的奇迹每隔一段时间就会出现，蒸汽机、汽车、计算机以及因特网即是。

But what he means is a technological miracle of the kind that happens from time to time. The steam engine, the automobile, the computer, the Internet are all miracles.

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一个仅仅生产蒸汽机的小岛国不可避免地落后一个在大量地在装配线上生产汽车的地大物博的大陆。

A small island making steam engines by hand inevitably fell behind a bountiful continent that mass-produced motor cars on assembly lines.

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当蒸汽机把理想变成了现实，那么驱动了现在世界上数以百万计的汽车的内燃机就是一种必然技术进步。

Once the steam engine put that idea into practice, developments such as the internal-combustion engine-which now powers the world's millions of automobiles-came as almost inevitable refinements.

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