双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第8章:水银延时线(34)
日期:2019-04-16 10:26

(单词翻译:单击)

And indeed he could foresee a new field of industry and employment:
实际上,图灵预见了一整套新型产业和就业领域:
It will be seen that the possibilities as to what one may do are immense.
该领域具有巨大的发展潜力,
One of our difficulties will be the maintenance of an appropriate discipline, so that we do not lose track of what we are doing.
我们要解决的问题之一,就是要维持一些恰当的原则,以避免在前进的道路上迷失。
We shall need a number of efficient librarian types to keep us in order.
我们需要一种高效的、图书馆式的管理规范和标准,以形成井然有序的发展过程。
Twenty years ahead of his time, in his conception of the organisation of a computer installation, he had drawn his picture from his experience at Bletchley.
实际上,图灵在20年之前,就已经从布莱切利的经验中,看到了这幅美好的计算机图景。
There they had likewise employed ten thousand human operators, and had worked as a system, involving remote out-stations, telephone communications, an elite who transformed the problems into programs, and plenty of 'librarian types'.
当时,他们雇用了一万名操作人员和编程人员,拥有电话通信和远程终端,并保证了充分的"图书馆式"管理,这些都结合在一起,作为一个庞大的系统,井井有条地运转着。
But he could never say anything directly about it, and no one could picture what had never officially existed, so his analysis came as news from nowhere.
但是,图灵从来都没有直接提起过这些,也没有任何其他人,提起过这从未存在过的一切,以至于图灵的研究和分析,每每好似凭空而降。
The ACE report was also the first account of the uses to which a universal computer could be put.
这份ACE报告,首次展示了通用计算机的用途。
The ACE was to solve 'those problems which can be solved by human clerical labour, working to fixed rules, and without understanding', restricted by the size of the machine to cases where 'the amount of written material which need be kept at any one stage is limited to ...50 sheets of paper' and where 'the instructions to the operator' could be described in 'ordinary language within the space of an ordinary novel'.
ACE可以用来解决人类能够解决的问题,它只需要按照特定的规则,而不需要"理解"这些问题。人们只需要把问题用"普通的人类语言"传达给操作员,然后由操作员将其转换成"不超过50页纸"的机器指令。
It would be able to do so in one hundred thousandth of the time taken by 'the human operator, doing his arithmetic without mechanical aid.'
机器计算所需的时间,只有人类计算者的十分之一。

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重点单词
  • appropriateadj. 适当的,相称的 vt. 拨出(款项); 占用
  • conceptionn. 概念,观念,构想,怀孕
  • solvev. 解决,解答
  • remoteadj. 偏僻的,遥远的,远程的,(感情等)距离很大 n
  • universaladj. 普遍的,通用的,宇宙的,全体的,全世界的 n.
  • analysisn. 分析,解析
  • maintenancen. 维护,保持,维修,生活费用 n. 供给,抚养; 主
  • trackn. 小路,跑道,踪迹,轨道,乐曲 v. 跟踪,追踪
  • disciplinen. 训练,纪律,惩罚,学科 vt. 训练,惩罚
  • immenseadj. 巨大的,广大的,非常好的