In Steampunk literature, the living computers and flying cars of science fiction are typically replaced by hulking steam-powered machines and floating dirigibles.

科幻小说里常常能见到有生命的电脑和满天飞的汽车，而在蒸汽朋克小说里，这些玩意儿都被蒸汽动力机械和漂浮的飞艇取代了。

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Their accomplishments include artificial blood, a biological sensor to detect arsenic and bacteria that can act as "living computers" to solve mathematical problems in lab dishes.

他们的成就包括人造血液，一种探测砷的生物传感器，以及能够在培养皿中像“有生命的计算机”那样解开数学难题的细菌。

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We are now living in a world where computers rule our work and daily life. So online searches have already become a must.

我们现在生活的世界里，电脑控制着我们工作和日常生活。因此，在线搜索已经成为一种必需品。

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The problem with that take, of course, is that the Pedrazza brothers are or were among the thousands who make a living assembling computers for customers.

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The trading room itself is a low-ceilinged affair about the size of an average living room, with 13 computers lined up along three walls.

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The boffins in Palo Alto want to build computers out of living tissue, and to that end they've created a biological transistor, called the transcriptor.

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