"Sometimes, I feel as plain and insignificant as a gear in a giant machine," said Lydia.

“有时候，我觉得自己像一台巨型机器上的一个齿轮一样普通而平凡。”利迪娅说。

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This is important because in a state machine you actually are not doing anything in a state, you are simply waiting to be told to pick up your gear and go to the next state.

这一点非常重要，因为在状态机中，实际在一个状态中并不进行任何动作，而仅仅是等待转移到下一个状态的信号并随后发生状态转移。

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This 100-foot-tall combat machine from the 1999 movie wields an energy cannon and snacks on cars. But he really gets in gear playing hide-and-seek with a schoolboy.

1999年上映的《钢铁巨人》（The Iron Giant）中的主角是一个高大100英尺、挥舞着能量炮的战斗机器，但他只有在和他的朋友——一个小男孩捉迷藏时才会兴奋。

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They look like an extra-large version of the World War Two jeep, but enclosed, with small blast-proof windows, a protected machine gun position on top and a variety of high-tech gear inside and out.

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Still, Samsung may choose to put its already-powerful marketing machine into higher gear in the next few weeks, as consumers make that all important decision when they buy their next smartphone.

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Orion itself is an amazing machine, but the gear being used to design, build and test it is equally impressive.

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The finding by Gartner, the market research firm that serves as the high-technology industry's closest counsel, signals that high-tech's green hype machine is about to find another gear.

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