In short, the nation's central measure of economic well-being works like a calculating machine that adds but cannot subtract.

简而言之，衡量国家经济福祉的核心指标就像一台计算器，只能增加，不能减少。

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The precision of a calculating machine?

机器一般的计算准确性？

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I began as a calculating machine in France in 1642.

我开始时是1642年在法国作为一个计算的机器。

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Kasparov talked about the game more like a poet than a calculating machine.

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What, do you think you'll be able to go through life with a tiny calculating machine in your shirt pocket, she screamed.

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Calculating the addition of the number 2 to a variable, for example, can generate 27 instructions in machine code, many of them repetitive.

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