If a slave dies you got to buy a new machine, and while he's alive you got to feed him.

如果一个奴隶死掉了,你就得买台新的,他活着时你还要养着他

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Then he had a machine that granted each pigeon one piece of corn every fifteen seconds; that's very, frustratingly slow for a hungry pigeon to get one piece every fifteen seconds.

他们设计了一个能保证,每隔15秒给鸽子喂一玉米粒的装置,对饥饿的鸽子来说是杯水车薪,每15秒才只有一粒玉米

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He's also a promotion machine to the stars.

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He was a product of New York's Democratic machine, Tammany Hall, with no particular expertise in financial matters.

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They like the fact that he's an organizer, and he's promised to campaign in all 50 states, isn't a great fundraising machine under Dean's leadership.

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