People give them names, and if they have to be sent back for repair they carefully mark them to ensure they get the same machine back, says Nancy Dussault Smith of iRobot.

iRobot公司的南茜•德萨特•史密斯说，人们会给机器人起名字，而且如果机器人需要返厂维修，人们还会仔细做上记号，以确保拿回来的是同一台。

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Jack Smith's way is to work the machine, not just throw a spanner in it.

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Influential people within the party machine had been dismayed by what they saw as Mr Duncan Smith's pettiness and insecurity.

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"The best advice they could follow is to build the team into being an effective, money-making machine again, " said Andrew Zimbalist, a noted sports economist and Smith College professor.

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