虽然花了150年来完成，差分机2号工作得完全符合巴贝奇所料想，计算——甚至打印出一张一张超高精度的表。

Although it took 150 years to complete, the Difference Engine No. 2 works exactly as Babbage planned, computing - and even printing - table after table of super-accurate data.

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巴贝奇设想能有一种更精确、解放人力的方法来计算这些表，而他的差分机就是这个解决之道。

Babbage envisioned a more accurate, labor-saving way of making such tables, and his Difference Engine was the result.

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实验确切证明，尽管经历了3500英里的飞行，以及不同地方的时间差，蜜蜂的“闹钟”仍精确地依照它的24小时时间表运行。

The experiment proved conclusively that in spite of a 3,500-mile flight and differences in local time, the bees' alarm clocks rang right on their 24-hour schedule.

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