But just as it is machines that are generating most of the data deluge, so they can also be put to work to deal with it.

但是既然是机器引发了绝大部分的数据洪流，那么机器也可以用来处理这些信息。

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It is strongly recommended that the machines should be checked every year.

建议每年一定把机器检修一次。

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The thing is, machines still have limitations when it comes to facial recognition.

问题是，机器在人脸识别方面仍然有局限。

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But it is still possible to make paper by hand, since the steps are the same as using big machines.

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A very old, very wrong view of evolution is that evolution has shaped animals such that they're merely survival machines.

非常古老错误的进化论观点认为,进化塑造了动物,他们只是幸存的机器。

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It goes off in this strange digression. It seems like his mind has simply wandered, as it does, from one version of the story to another. But the mention of the machines is not incidental.

这故事就这么奇怪地离题说着，好像他的思想,在游离，从故事的一方面跳到,另一方面，但是提到机器并不是偶然。

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There are no breasts, little backstabbing, no drinking or drugs, and the only violence is machines cutting into huge tracts of pristine wilderness and ocean bottom.

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While one stop on the tour is where machines come to die, another is where they return to life.

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"Political party machines are weak in Pakistan, so what we have is family machines, " said Ali Cheema, a professor of economics at Lahore University of Management Sciences.

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