我提出了当时被当做旁门左道的建议，说设计新机器或许更省钱。

I made the then heretical suggestion that it might be cheaper to design new machines.

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你仍然可以看到它们被当做宠物，尽管是非法的。

It can also be found as a pet, albeit an illegal one.

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女性的强大远不被人们庆贺，而是被当做威胁。

Far from being celebrated, women's rising power is perceived as a threat.

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Notice the difference. The recipe, the sequence of instructions, is actually getting read in, and it's treated just like data.

注意其中的差别，方法，也就是指令序列，其实是需要读的，被当做数据来对待。

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And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.

我想，有一段时间里，这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。

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Even though my statement said enter a number, in particular, raw input here simply takes in a set of characters and treats it as a string.

即使我的陈述说的是应该输入一个数字，实际上，这里的原始输入会被当做一个字符,的集合来提取并被当做一个字符串来对待。

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