Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

  • -- Charles Babbage 巴贝奇

电报是一种能以极快的速度在广泛的线路上传送信息的机器。

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Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

像我父亲一样,我小时候也不会把任何东西扔掉,把旧玩具、电动机和破机器的碎片放在床底下我称之为“有用的东西盒子”里。

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

现在人们获取信息的方式不同了。我们会因此而变得更穷,因为你获取信息的方式会影响你的学习。

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

从现在起,呼吸空气和喝水的能力将成为战争的主题。它正以惊人的速度到来。

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

当你根据新闻标题制作漫画时,你是基于不完整的信息。

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

我确实倾向于从我喜欢的其他行中提取行,然后围绕它们来写。

It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

这是最轻松的工作,但是有些台词太搞笑了,我笑翻了。

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

然而,黑人已经经受了大规模的考验。