Conquerors seized them as especially precious spoils of war; tourists came to see and hear these machines the way they made pilgrimages to sacred relics.

征服者把它们当做格外珍贵的战利品；游客来参观和聆听这些机器，就像朝拜圣地一样。

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It made the dwarf smile to see them sweating and cursing as they wrestled the heavy machines onto the inclines.

看着他们费力的将巨大的机械搬上斜坡时挥汗如雨不停咒骂让侏儒笑出来。

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WASHINGTON — Federal auto safety regulators on Monday made it official: They are betting the nation's highways will be safer with more cars driven by machines and not people.

华盛顿——联邦汽车安全监管机构周一正式宣布：它们认为，美国公路上的车辆更多地由机器驾驶时将比由人驾驶更安全。

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Thus Japanese consumer electronics businesses Sony and Matsushita flirted for a while with Hollywood studios that made the movies they showed on their machines.

ECONOMIST: Idea

Mr. MILLER: I think it's nice that the Academy has at least - you know, acknowledges that movies would not be made and enjoyed the way they are today without these guys that invent all these wonderful machines and contraptions.

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So he took a job forty miles away, at Plastipak, the plastics manufacturer, where he made seven-fifty an hour inspecting Gatorade bottles and Crisco containers as they came out of the stamping machines.

NEWYORKER: Hellhole