When there were no computers, efforts were required to get knowledge from other people, or go to the library.

还没有电脑的时候，人们需要努力从别人那里获取知识，或者去图书馆。

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Can you remember when there were no computers?

你是否记得那没有电脑的时光？

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Ah! There were no computers or Internet in my time.

哦！我那时候没有电脑也没有网络。

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Consumers also want computers and cell phones, but in cities, these are no longer status symbols.

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That's why your operating systems and your personal computers often crash for no apparent reason. Just because two things happen to, once in a while, occur at the same time.

这就是为什么你的电脑或者操作系统,经常会毫无预兆的崩溃了,这是因为两件事情正好同时发生了，通常还有人工输入。

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PROFESSOR: Computers? No.

教授：计算机？错。

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No phones, no computers, just me and my novel and my mp3 player.

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Not bad for a couple of guys with no computers back in 1981.

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Print ads featured no computers and no copy beyond the tagline.

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