"Sometimes, I feel as plain and insignificant as a gear in a giant machine," said Lydia.

“有时候，我觉得自己像一台巨型机器上的一个齿轮一样普通而平凡。”利迪娅说。

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Figure 1 shows that the virtualization component is provided by a layer of software called a hypervisor (sometimes called a virtual machine monitor [VMM]).

图1中所示的这个虚拟化组件是由一个名为hypervisor(有时也叫作虚拟机监视器[VMM])的软件层提供的。

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Sometimes (on my Mac OSX machine, at least), it produces a "Bus error" instead.

有时（至少在我的 Mac OSX 机器上），它会转而生成一个“Bus error”。

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The result sometimes feels less like a machine than like an organic whole, a huge, thick-skulled, powerful animal moving with equal menace and grace through its element.

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One might think that those droll little witticisms that Siri sometimes comes up with a the result of a machine intelligence gaining a sense of humour.

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Sometimes a good technician can retrieve data from a hard drive by physically taking it apart and loading it into another machine.

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