电脑工程师一般城之为“表面阻力”——一种显微镜级下物质粘连的现象——工程师们已经与之斗争了很长时间了。

Computer engineers talk of "stiction" -the phenomenon of microscopic components sticking together-and spend a lot of time trying to figure out ways to avoid it.

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他既是一位精力充沛的团队合作者，又是一位极具人格魅力的领导者，在同事的眼中，穆拉利还是一位工程师，因为他的决定都是基于铁一般的数据而非模糊的预感。

An enthusiastic team player and a charismatic leader, Mr Mulally was also regarded by his colleagues as an engineers' engineer, since he based his decisions on hard data rather than vague hunches.

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在发射控制室里，即使是一般情况下清醒的工程师们也哽咽了起来。

Inside the launch control room, even normally sober engineers acknowledged choking up.

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The other thing about it is that you could make lots of things that are new but generally you think of engineers as making things that are not just new but they're useful, that they do something that needs to be done, and that they do something that improves life, the quality of life of people.

另一个区别是,科学家会做很多很多新鲜玩意儿,而一般来讲,工程师做的东西不只是新奇,它们还很有用,他们做那些需要做的东西,他们做的东西能够提高,人类的生活水平和生活质量

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