Conquerors seized them as especially precious spoils of war; tourists came to see and hear these machines the way they made pilgrimages to sacred relics.

征服者把它们当做格外珍贵的战利品；游客来参观和聆听这些机器，就像朝拜圣地一样。

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As Brookings Institution analyst P. W. Singer describes in "war of the Machines," the rise of robots leads to the frightening prospect of making obsolete the rule book by which nations go to war.

如同Brookings机构的分析师P . W . Singer在《战争机器》中描述的那样，机器人的崛起会导致之前参战国家所遵循的规则失效的可怕前景。

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Singer describes in "war of the Machines," the rise of robots leads to the frightening prospect of making obsolete the rule book by which nations go to war.

Singer在《战争机器》中描述的那样，机器人的崛起会导致之前参战国家所遵循的规则失效的可怕前景。

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In the second, a model is turned into an alien planet, complete with an army of clone soldiers surrounded by giant war machines and laser bolts.

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Also competing were two examples of the 12-meter class that dominated the America's Cup competition in the decades after World War II and an entire fleet of 6-meters--aristocratic racing machines that have been the favorites of such yachtsmen as the kings of Spain, Denmark and Norway.

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