People piloting drones and helicopters fight wars against people who use machetes and forty-year old Soviet machine guns; all these tools can kill effectively, and they all exist right now together.

人们驾驶着无人飞机和直升机对那些用着大砍刀和四十年前的苏维埃机械枪开战。所有的这些工具都可以有效地杀人，他们现在都一起存在着。

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Star Wars featured a bad guy who was part man, part machine.

星球大战中有个半人半机器的坏蛋角色。

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Guild Wars is noted for its well-built graphics which look equally good when players are in fast motion and even on a lower-configuration machine.

激战因优质图像闻名，那些图像看起来就是就像是处于电影快动作中却可以在低端的机器上运行。

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But it may also be because Mr Rumsfeld is halfway through a transformation of America's military, from a lumbering force of infantry and armoured divisions built to face the Soviets into a lighter, faster, supposedly smarter, technology-driven machine for the wars of tomorrow.

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His weapon: a rolling, 3-foot-tall machine (think R2-D2 from Star Wars) called the Xenex that bathes hospital rooms with intense, millisecond pulses of ultraviolet light from a high-wattage strobe light.

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The Star Wars franchise also meant big profits, an unstoppable Death-Star-sized money machine that has still never been matched in Hollywood history.

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