• 意大利企业家发明披萨自动贩卖机

    14-07-11 意大利一名企业家发明了披萨自动贩卖机,顾客每次只需要等待3分钟,便可吃到新鲜出炉的披萨。 A pizza vending machine takes convenience food to a whole new level, delivering fresh pies to customers in just three minutes 24/7. The Let's Pizza unit invented...

  • 澳男子捉迷藏被困洗衣机内

    14-01-13 Police in Australia have rescued a naked man who got stuck inside a washing machine while playing a game of hide-and-seek. 澳大利亚的警察近日解救了一名玩捉迷藏时裸身卡在洗衣机里的男人。 The man reportedly hid inside the top-loading machine so he cou...

  • carbon-based error 人为故障

    12-12-28 A carbon-based error refers to a problem with a computer or a program that is caused by the user rather than the machine. All life on earth depends on carbon, which forms the molecular bonds that make life possible. Therefore, to say that an error i...

  • 英取款机出故障吐双倍钱数

    12-07-31 POLICE were called to restore order after a bank ATM in eastern England started dispensing twice the money its customers were asking for. 英格兰东部一家银行的自动取款机给储户送钱,储户取多少钱,取款机就吐出双倍的钱。故障发生后,警察被召来维持秩序。...

  • time card 考勤卡

    12-07-02 The factory's 1,178 employees complained that the factory has deducted 40 minutes from their time cards every day since 2005 to account for time the employees spend taking washroom breaks. The workers also claimed that the factory has failed to issu...

  • Moxons Master 4

    11-12-28 'Do you happen to recall Herbert Spencer's definition of life? I read it thirty years ago. He may have altered it afterward, for anything I know, but in all that time I have been unable to think of a single word that could profitably be changed or a...

  • Moxons Master 1

    11-12-28 Are you serious? -- do you really believe that a machine thinks?' I got no immediate reply; Moxon was apparently intent upon the coals in the grate, touching them deftly(熟练地) here and there with the fire-poker till they signified a sense of his...

  • CD Player CD唱机

    11-07-14 While shopping for my first CD player, I was able to decipher most of the technicalese on the promotional signs. One designation had me puzzled, though, so I called over a salesperson and asked, What does 'hybrid pulse D/A converter' mean? That mean...

  • 大型强子对撞机可能是世界上首台时光机

    11-03-16 If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider the world's largest atom smasher(核粒子加速器) that started regular operation last year could be the first machine capable causing matter to travel backwards in...

  • 日内瓦大型强子对撞机关闭一年进行安全检修

    10-03-10 A director at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva has told BBC News that some mistakes were made in construction. 日内瓦大型强子对撞机的一位主管称,对撞机的建设过程中出现一些错误需要修复。 The damage that occurred in 2008 took 14 months to repair Dr...