Can you operate the machine?

你能操作这台机器吗？

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We must know how to operate the machine.

我们必须弄懂如何操作这机器。

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I wish I knew how to operate the machine.

我要是会操作这架机器该有多好呀！

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And even though it's an imitation, in many ways, the machine that we've developed can operate more than we can ourselves.

虽然只是一个仿制品，在很多年内，这个我们发明的机器能够,比我们做的更多。

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Elevators used to require an operator with a brain to operate the machine.

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Fry recalled how his mother had back in the 80s asked him to help her operate a fax machine, and that she had found the contraption a remarkable feat of human achievement.

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But he struggled to find enough workers to operate his machine for three full shifts through the week.

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