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[00:01.70]第17课
[00:03.40]Television Day:Computers
[00:05.56]电视日:计算机
[00:07.73]"...the astronauts are returning to earth at exactly 5.24."
[00:10.50]...宇航员将于5:24整回到地球,
[00:13.27]Splash-down will be in the Pacific,427 miles west of Hawaii.
[00:16.60]"并将在位于夏威夷西部427英里的太平洋海面上溅落."
[00:19.93]You have often heard announcements like this on television.
[00:22.36]你常会从电视听到上述的预告.
[00:24.79]Scientists can tell us exactly
[00:26.81]举例说,科学家能准确地告诉我们
[00:28.84]when a space-capsule will arrive on the moon for instance,
[00:31.32]宇宙密封小舱何时抵达月球
[00:33.80]and exactly when it will return.
[00:35.83]和何时返回.
[00:37.85]They can calculate things like this to the nearest second.
[00:40.42]对这类事情,他们的计算可精确至秒.
[00:43.00]How do they do it?
[00:44.38]他们是如何做的呢?
[00:45.77]Well,of course,they use mathematics.
[00:47.99]当然他们运用了数学.
[00:50.21]We can all do simple sums on paper,
[00:52.39]我们都能在纸上做简单的算术题,
[00:54.57]but we must use computers for extremely difficult calculations.
[00:57.55]但必须用计算机进行复杂的运算.
[01:00.53]Perhaps you have seen mechanical calculating-machines in banks and offices.
[01:03.61]你也许在银行和办公室见过机械计算机.
[01:06.69]They can work very quickly,but nothing like computers.
[01:09.37]尽管它们运算迅速,但与电子计算机截然不同.
[01:12.05]Computers aren't mechanical.
[01:13.91]电子计算机不是机械的.
[01:15.78]They don't have wheels and gears in them.
[01:17.96]它们没有转轮和齿轮.
[01:20.14]Instead,they work on electrical circuits
[01:22.57]而是通过电路工作的,
[01:25.00]and can do difficult calculations at tremendous speed.
[01:27.63]可以迅速进行复杂的运算
[01:30.25]They can work 100 million times faster than the human mind!
[01:33.73]它们运算速度要比人脑快上一亿倍.