[00:00.74]新单词
[00:01.49]engineer n.
[00:02.26]工程师
[00:03.03]misguided adj.
[00:03.88]引导错误的，误导的
[00:04.73]journalist n.
[00:05.36]记者
[00:05.98]fundamental adj.
[00:06.84]基础的，基本的
[00:07.71]despite prep.
[00:08.35]不管，尽管
[00:08.99]enable v.
[00:09.68]使能够
[00:10.37]sequence n.
[00:11.10]连续
[00:11.83]human adj.
[00:12.43]人的，人类的
[00:13.04]demonstration n.
[00:13.91]示范，表演
[00:14.79]interrogate v.
[00:15.71]提出问题
[00:16.64]pulse n.
[00:17.18]脉冲
[00:17.71]simultaneously adv.
[00:18.77]同时地，一齐地
[00:19.83]Phrases & Expressions
[00:21.81]electronic brain
[00:22.74]电脑
[00:23.67]engineering tool
[00:24.48]工程工具
[00:25.29]object to
[00:26.19]反对
[00:27.09]out of fashion
[00:27.87]不合时尚
[00:28.66]refer to
[00:29.44]指的，把...归类(于)
[00:30.22]Mr. Wang:I'm afraid, Miss Li, you're not quite accurate when you call a computer an 'electronic brain'.
[00:33.35]王：李小姐，你把计算机叫做电脑恐怕不太确切。
[00:36.47]Miss Li:Oh! But most people do.
[00:37.92]李：噢!不过大多数人都是这样说的。
[00:39.37]Mr. Wang:Yes, it was given that title by some misguided journalist not long after the first modern electronic computer was built in 1946.
[00:44.43]王：是，这种称呼是在1946年制造出第一台现代化计算机之后不久，有一位新闻记者错误地给计算机戴上的。
[00:49.50]Mr. Song:It is electronic, Mr. Wang, so therefore you must be objecting to the word brain.
[00:52.90]宋：这是电子的，王先生，因此你一定会反对用脑子这个词来称呼它。
[00:56.29]Mr. Wang:Exactly, Mr. Song. There are similarities with the human brain,
[00:58.96]王：确实如此。宋先生。计算机同人脑有相似性。
[01:01.62]but there is one very important difference.
[01:03.18]但二者之间有一个非常重要的差别。
[01:04.73]Miss Li:The computer is better?
[01:05.82]李：把它称作计算机不是更好吗?
[01:06.90]Mr. Wang:In some ways, yes, but not in something which is quite fundamental.
[01:09.45]王：在某些方面可以这样说，但在某些根本性的问题上就不行了。
[01:11.99]Mr. Song:Mr. Wang, do you mean the fact that the machine is controlled by man?
[01:15.10]宋：王先生，你是否指的是计算机是由人控制的这样一个事实?
[01:18.21]Mr. Wang:I do. You see, despite all its accomplishments, the socalled electronic brain must be programmed by a human brain.
[01:22.73]王：是的。你知道，任凭它能完成所有计算，但所谓的电脑还是必须由人脑来给它编制程序的。
[01:27.25]Miss Li:Programmed?
[01:27.75]李：编制程序?
[01:28.24]Mr. Song:Yes, Miss Li. A program is a sequence of instructions prepared for the computer for a specific calculation,
[01:32.19]宋先生：是的，李小姐。程序是计算机做特定的。
[01:36.13]or series of calculations, enabling the computer to solve a given program.
[01:39.25]或一系列的计算机所准备的一连串的指令，这样才能使计算机去解决给定的问题.。
[01:42.37]Mr. Wang:The point is that a human tells the machine what to do,
[01:44.57]王：其要点是由人告诉机器做什么，
[01:46.76]when to do it and how it is done.
[01:48.13]什么时间做，怎样做完。
[01:49.51]Miss Li:I see! Do you also program information for the computer's memory?
[01:52.56]李小姐：我明白了!那你还要给计算机的存储器编入信息吧!
[01:55.62]Mr. Wang:Correct, except the word memory has rather gone out of fashion.
[01:58.19]王：对的，不过“记忆”这个词早已过时了。
[02:00.76]The computer doesn't really remember. Information is stored in it.
[02:03.23]计算机并不真正记忆。信息是贮存在机内的。
[02:05.70]We refer to core storage, or the store of data.
[02:05.20]是指核心存储，或是叫数据存储。
[02:09.12]Miss Bai:Mr. Wang, the machine's free now for a real time demonstration.
[02:11.57]白：王先生，现在计算机正空在那里呢!可以做实时演示。
[02:14.03]Mr. Wang:Thank you, Miss Bai. If you'd like to follow me...
[02:15.50]王：谢谢你，白小姐。请跟我们来...
[02:16.98]These are called interrogating typewriters.
[02:19.00]这些称为交互查询打印机。
[02:21.03]Mr. Song:And that's the input-output system?
[02:22.28]宋;那是输入输出系统吗?
[02:23.54]Miss Bai:That's right. It's the method best suited to the particular needs of this organization.
[02:26.08]白：是的，这是适用于组织计算特种需要的最佳方式。
[02:28.63]Mr. Wang:The operator - this young lady - types the information or questions, or both.
[02:31.37]王：我们年轻的操作员小姐键入问题或提问题，或是两者都进行。
[02:34.12]Miss Ding:Yes. This produces two very different copies.
[02:36.39]丁：对。这里输出的是两种完全不同的拷贝。
[02:38.66]Mr.Song:One's an ordinary typewritten copy.
[02:40.37]宋;一份是一般打印出来的文本。
[02:42.08]Mr. Wang:That's right. Then her typing also sends pulses down a line,
[02:44.80]王：对的。然后操作员再把这脉冲输入给线路，
[02:47.52]an ordinary telephone line.
[02:48.51]一种普通电话线路。
[02:49.50]And this simultaneously cuts the information or question on to a paper tape which is fed into the computer.
[02:53.58]随即计算机同时把信息或问题打印在送入计算机的纸带上。
[02:57.65]I think Miss Bai here can tell you the rest.
[02:59.70]我想白小姐可以告诉你们此后的其他情况。
