在巴贝奇的时代，这计算完全由人手——通常为女性计算者——辛辛苦苦地完成各种枯燥重复的运算。

In Babbage’s time, such computations were laboriously completed by humans — usually women “computers” — working through tedious, repetitive calculations.

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来自比利时的基斯度.高士也是此计划的参与者，他说：“老鼠体积小，很聪明，学得快，就象完成不断重复的任务，他们有着比狗更灵敏的嗅觉。”

He said: "Rats are good, clever to learn, small, like performing repeated tasks and have a better sense of smell than dogs."

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小孩子会喜欢这个撅嘴鱼童话里那些不断重复的儿歌的。 这条鱼到处散布它的“沉闷的厌倦”，不管游到哪里它都是绝对的扫兴者。

Younger kids will love the repetition of the verses in this tale of a pout-pout fish who spreads his "dreary-wearies" and is an absolute buzz-kill wherever he swims.

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And that for centuries thereafter, different rhapsodes repeated it but elucidated it, illuminated it, extended it, changed it, tried to improve it, sometimes they added stuff.

在这之后的几个世纪里,不同的史诗吟诵者重复着,讲解着,阐释着 拓展着,变化着,尝试改进着,有时还添油加醋

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