There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.

厨房里有一台机器，只要管家用拇指按下小按钮两百次，半小时就能榨出两百个橙子的汁。

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Parents can program the machine not to turn on at certain times.

父母可设定机器在某些时候不启动。

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I called several times, but only got the answering machine.

我打了几次电话，但只有电话答录机答话。

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Soon, machine-to-machine conversations will outnumber human-to-human and human-to-machine conversations many times over.

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CareCore's research shows a doctor who owns his own machine is four times as likely to order a scan as a doctor who doesn't.

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Ask Franz Josef Och the same question, though, and he says that even with a machine a thousand times more powerful than today's his program wouldn't run significantly better than it does right now, as far as most people could tell.

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