The father of machine translation, Warren Weaver, chose to regard Russian as a "code" obscuring the real meaning of the text.

沃伦·韦弗被誉为机器翻译之父，他将俄语视为表达真实意义的“代码”文本。

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Nothing much happened, however, until 1946 when an American mathematician called Warren Weaver became intrigued with the way the British had used their pioneering Colossus computer to crack the military codes produced by Germany's Enigma encryption machines.

ECONOMIST: A gift of tongues