The Antikythera mechanism has been discovered to be a mechanical computer of an accuracy thought impossible in 80 BC, when the ship that carried it sunk.

人们发现安提基特拉机械是一种机械计算机，这种精确的思路对公元前80年，该船沉没的年代，的人类而言是不可能做到的。

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Other applications of the system include programs that can interpret mechanical drawings, family trees, and diagrams of computer programs.

系统的其他应用还包括可以解读机械绘图、家族树和电脑软件图表的软件。

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Mechanical and electrical machines built within the industrial capabilities of their time preceded the computer.

计算机诞生之前，曾经有顺应当时工业能力而产生的机械和电气机器。

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If unfamiliar, these are the mechanical computer devices that you have to use to buy a ticket on the T these days and there was one of these really awkward but touching situations where it was clear that this woman had no idea, you know, what to do, how to get from here to here, and I could see her just staring at the turnstiles that you're supposed to go through to get into the subway.

如果不熟悉，这是机械计算机设备,当今你必须使用它们来买地铁票,它们实在是难操作的,这个令人同情的情况是,明显这位老太太不知道怎样操作，怎样从这一步到那一步,我看见她只是凝视着,地铁的栅门口。

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No merely mechanical object, no robot, no computer could have free will.

没有哪个机械的物体,也没有哪个机器人,哪个电脑能有自由意志

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