六级The company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception has not provided credible proof.

该公司可能非常乐观，但他们的机器检测欺骗的能力并没有提供可靠的证据。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

四级Informing students about the brain as a learning machine is a good strategy to enhance their motivation for learning.

让学生了解大脑是一台学习机器，这是增强他们学习动机的一个好策略。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级As the databases grew, machine accuracy dipped across the board.

随着数据库的增长，机器的精度全面下降。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考For the machine, this quality is not in-born, nor is it something introduced by humans; it is a logical consequence of the simple fact that the machine cannot achieve its original purpose if it is dead.

对于机器来说，这种品质不是天生的，也不是人类引入的；这是一个简单事实的逻辑结果，即如果机器死了，就无法达到其原始目的。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级They are already on California roads, so it is not too soon to ask whether we can program a machine to act ethically.

他们已经在加利福尼亚州的公路上了，所以现在问我们是否可以为一台机器编程，使其行为合乎道德还为时过早。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级In studies, he gave subjects a chance to deceive for monetary gain while examining their brains in a functional Mri machine, which maps blood flow to active parts of the brain.

在研究中，他给了受试者一个机会，让他们在一台功能性核磁共振成像仪中检查自己的大脑，该仪器可以将血流映射到大脑的活动部位，从而骗取金钱。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考This makes a fun activity for a children's party; they love feeding the fruit and frozen bananas into the top of the machine and watching the ice cream come out below.

这对于儿童聚会来说是一项有趣的活动；他们喜欢把水果和冷冻香蕉放进机器的顶部，看着下面的冰淇淋出来。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级The machine would not be a passive participant but would add its own suggestions, information, and opinions; it would sometimes take the initiative in developing or changing the topic and would have a personality of its own.

机器不会是被动参与者，而是会添加自己的建议、信息和意见；它有时会主动发展或改变主题，并具有自己的个性。

2013年6月听力原文

四级In addition, parents and teachers can help children by providing explicit instruction regarding the mind as a learning machine.

此外，家长和老师可以通过提供明确的指导来帮助孩子，将大脑视为一台学习机器。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研This argument has attracted a lot of attention, via the success of the book Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who both hail from MTI's Center for Digital Business.

这一论点引起了很多关注，因为埃里克·布林约夫森（Erik Brynjolfsson）和安德鲁·麦卡菲（Andrew McAfee）都来自MTI数字商务中心，他们成功地完成了《与机器的图书竞赛》。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研We need to reframe race against the machine as race with the machine.

我们需要把与机器的比赛重新定义为与机器的比赛。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研The first step, as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew MeAfee argue in The Second Machine Age, should be rethinking education and job training.

正如埃里克·布林约夫森（Erik Brynjolfsson）和安德鲁·米菲（Andrew MeAfee）在《第二个机器时代》（The Second Machine Age）中所说，第一步应该是重新思考教育和职业培训。

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级The ideal companion machine would not only look, feel, and sound friendly but would also be programmed to behave in an agreeable manner.

理想的伴侣机器不仅外观、感觉和声音友好，而且还可以编程以令人愉快的方式运行。

2013年6月听力原文

六级So we must aim to complement the rationality of the machine, rather than to compete with it.

因此，我们必须致力于补充机器的合理性，而不是与之竞争。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Machines also had difficulty adjusting for people who look a lot alike—either doppelgangers, whom the machine would have trouble identifying as two separate people, or the same person who appeared in different photos at different ages or in different ligh

机器也很难适应那些长得很像的人，或者是双倍体，机器很难识别他们是两个不同的人，或者是同一个人，在不同的年龄或不同的光线下出现在不同的照片中

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级No average person wants to figure out whether their favorite calendar software works with their fridge or whether their washing machine and tablet get along.

没有一个普通人想知道他们最喜欢的日历软件是否能与冰箱配合使用，或者他们的洗衣机和平板电脑是否合拍。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级No average person wants to figure out whether their favorite calendar software works with their fridge or whether their washing machine and tablet get along.

没有一个普通人想知道他们最喜欢的日历软件是否能与冰箱配合使用，或者他们的洗衣机和平板电脑是否合拍。

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级It turns out that the guy operates the printing machine with amazing speed, and soon he's turning out newspapers with shocking headlines.

事实证明，这家伙以惊人的速度操作印刷机，很快他就在报纸上打出令人震惊的头条新闻。

2013年6月听力原文

考研The networked computer is an amazing device, the first media machine that serves as the mode of production, means of distribution, site of reception, and place of praise and critique.

网络计算机是一种令人惊叹的设备，是第一台作为生产方式、分发手段、接收场所以及赞扬和批评场所的媒体机器。

2012年考研阅读原文

高考A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish to preserve its own existence.

有特定用途的机器还有另一种性质，我们通常把它与生物联系在一起：希望保存自己的存在。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级Those qualities that make interaction with other people enjoyable would be simulated as closely as possible, and the machine would appear to be charming stimulating, and easygoing

那些使与他人的互动变得愉快的品质将被尽可能地模拟出来，而这台机器将显得迷人、刺激、随和

2013年6月听力原文

六级Those qualities that make interaction with other people enjoyable would be simulated as closely as possible, and the machine would appear to be charming, stimulating, and easygoing

那些使与他人的互动变得愉快的品质将被尽可能地模拟出来，机器将看起来迷人、刺激、随和

2013年6月听力原文

六级Several companies around the world have produced prototypes that can drive on roads and fly, airbus has a futuristic modular concept involving a passenger capsule that can be detached from the road- going chassis and picked up by a helicopter-type machine

世界各地的几家公司已经生产出可以在公路上驾驶和飞行的原型，空客有一个未来的模块化概念，其中包括一个乘客舱，可以从公路底盘上分离出来，并由直升机式机器搭载

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

考研The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

20世纪后半叶，一群天才、勇士、企业家和有远见的人努力创造了一台神奇的机器，它可以作为打字机和印刷机、工作室和剧院、画笔和画廊、钢琴和收音机、邮件和邮递员。

2012年考研阅读原文

六级Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, wrote, "The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention."

《浅滩：互联网对我们大脑的影响》一书的作者尼古拉斯·卡尔写道：“网络被设计成一个中断系统，一台用来分散注意力的机器。”

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考Farecard machine are in every station, bring small bills because there are no change machines in the station and farecard machine only provide up to $ 5 in change.

每个车站都有收费卡机，因为车站没有零钱机，收费卡机最多只能提供5美元的零钱，所以请携带小额钞票。

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级If I'm right, we should foster a creative spirit because a dose of illogical creativity will complement the rationality of the machine.

如果我是对的，我们应该培养一种创新精神，因为一剂不合逻辑的创造力将补充机器的合理性。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

高考My washing machine is being repaired this week, so I have to wash my clothes by hand.

我的洗衣机这个星期要修理，所以我不得不用手洗衣服。

2018年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

考研The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want 一 the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that 一 the better.

他们越年轻，就学习计算机如何思考，如何哄骗机器生产他们想要的东西一 他们越早知道自己有能力做到这一点一 更好。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级For decades, researchers and law enforcement agencies have tried to build a machine that will do the same thing.

几十年来，研究人员和执法机构一直试图制造一台能做同样事情的机器。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

考研We are just in a situation where there are no good theories explaining what consciousnesss actually is and how you could ever build a machine to get there.

我们正处在一个没有好的理论来解释意识到底是什么，以及你如何能够建造一台机器来达到这个目的的情况下。

2020年考研真题（英语一）翻译 Section Ⅲ

高考Buy it from a fare card machine in metro stations.

在地铁站的车票刷卡机上购买。

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级Machine learning is now capable of far, far more complex tasks.

机器学习现在能够完成非常非常复杂的任务。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and rad

20世纪后半叶，一群天才、勇士、企业家和有远见的人努力创造了一台神奇的机器，可以作为打字机和印刷机、工作室和剧院、画笔和画廊、钢琴和收音机

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研The computer is the 21st century's culture machine.

计算机是21世纪的文化机器。

2012年考研阅读原文

四级Teaching ethics to a machine even more intelligent than we are will be the bigger challenge.

向一台比我们更智能的机器传授道德将是一个更大的挑战。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级By introducing a degree of forcefulness and humor, the machine could be presented as a vivid and unique character.

通过引入一定程度的力度和幽默感，机器可以表现为一个生动而独特的角色。

2013年6月听力原文

六级By introducing a degree of forefulness and humour, the machine could be presented as a vivid and unique character

通过引入一定程度的祖先和幽默感，机器可以表现为一个生动而独特的角色

2013年6月听力原文

四级The video machine has to be checked.

必须检查录像机。

2013年12月听力原文

六级Some have 26 vanished from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have 27 undergone changes as they have come into contact with an 28 expanding machine civilization.

有些人已经从地球表面消失，有些人正在慢慢死去，但当他们接触到一个不断扩张的机器文明时，所有的人都经历了变化。

2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

六级A code number is necessary to run the copy machine.

运行复印机需要一个代码。

2013年6月听力原文

高考Reaching over to my collection of CDs, I blindly took one out, put it in the machine and played it.

我伸手去拿我收集的CD，盲目地拿出一张，放进机器里播放。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 完形填空 原文

考研The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but this phenomenon tends to be most acutely felt during economic downturns and fragile recoveries.

人与机器的概念至少与工业革命一样古老，但这种现象往往在经济衰退和脆弱的复苏中最为强烈。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级The machine would convey presence.

这台机器能传达存在感。

2013年6月听力原文

六级The fundamental limitation of machine learning is that it needs to learn from large volumes of past data.

机器学习的基本局限性在于它需要从大量的过去数据中学习。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级Let's hope they' re wise enough not to be fooled by a machine that claims to determine truthfulness at the flip of a switch.

让我们希望他们足够聪明，不会被一台声称一按开关就能判断真实性的机器所愚弄。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级Are you using your dictating machine this morning?

今天早上你在用听写机吗？

2013年6月听力原文

六级To ask him to fix the dictating machine

让他修理听写机

2013年6月听力原文

六级A bathing machine was rolled down to the sea shore, so women would not be seen in swimwear.

一台洗浴机滚到了海边，这样就不会看到穿着泳衣的女人了。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

六级A machine can read millions of essay within minutes.

一台机器可以在几分钟内阅读数百万篇文章。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级We have all seen how a computer's use of personal names often fascinates people and needs them to treat the machine as if it were almost human.

我们都看到了计算机对人名的使用是如何让人们着迷的，并且需要人们把计算机当作几乎是人类一样对待。

2013年6月听力原文

六级Its informal conversational style would make interaction comfortable, and yet the machine would remain slightly unpredictable and therefore interesting.

它的非正式对话风格会让互动变得舒适，但机器仍然会有点不可预测，因此很有趣。

2013年6月听力原文

六级Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows： What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, wrote, “The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention.

《Shallows:互联网对我们大脑的影响》一书的作者Nicholas Carr写道：“网络被设计成一个中断系统，一个用来分散注意力的机器。

2017年12月英语六级考试真题（卷一）

六级Machines also had difficulty adjusting for people who look a lot alike-either doppelgangers(长 相极相似的人),whom the machine would have trouble identifying as two separate people, or the same person who appeared in different photos at different ages or in different lighting, whom the machine would incorrectly view as separate people.

机器也很难适应长得很像的人——要么是替身(长 相极相似的人),机器将很难将其识别为两个不同的人，或者在不同年龄或不同光线下出现在不同照片中的同一个人

2018 年 6 月6级真题第2套

六级Machine learning would prove disruptive by 20 They are widely applicable for massive open online courses.

到20年，机器学习将具有颠覆性

2018年12月6级真题第一套

六级The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon A group of corn farmers stands huddled around an agronomist (农学家)and his computer on the side of an irrigation machine in central South Africa.

石油价格和碳价格

2020年12月六级真题（第1套）

四级Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong.

显然，如果你必须检查电脑的所有答案，那么投资电脑是没有意义的，但人们也应该依靠自己的内部电脑，当他们感觉出了问题时，检查一下电脑。

1989年1月英语四级真题

四级After monitoring production of the Jarvik-7, and reviewing its effects on the 150 or so patients (most of whom got the device as a temporary measure) the U. S. Food and Drug Administration concluded that the machine was doing more to endanger lives than to save them.

在监测了Jarvik-7的生产情况，并审查了它对大约150名患者的影响（其中大多数人是作为临时措施获得该设备的）后，美国食品和药物管理局得出结论，该机器对生命的危害大于对他们的救救救。

1991年1月英语四级真题

四级Peter Lipkin, the United States sales manager for the Flik Flak, calls it Kidproof: if it gets dirty you can throw the whole watch in the washing machine.

Flik Flak在美国的销售经理Peter Lipkin称之为Kidproof：如果它变脏了，你可以把整个手表扔进洗衣机。

1992年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Such enormous numbers used to discourage us and cause us to dismiss the possibility of making a machine with human-like ability, but now that we have grown used to moving forward at such a pace we can be less sure.

如此巨大的数字曾经让我们气馁，并导致我们放弃制造具有类似人类能力的机器的可能性，但现在我们已经习惯了以这样的速度前进，我们就不那么确定了。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Quite soon, in only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will be able to assemble a machine as complex as the human brain, and if we can we will.

很快，也许在10年或20年内，我们将能够组装出一台像人脑一样复杂的机器，如果可以的话，我们会的。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign clients over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.

总部的员工能够通过电话或传真机与外国客户进行良好的沟通，这对公司来说是一笔明显的财富。

2003年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Every job I have held from cutting lawns to wash dishes to working a machine on the construction site.

我做过的每一份工作，从修剪草坪、洗碗到在建筑工地上操作机器。

2003年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In the last 30 years, however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has been installed in 98 percent of American homes.

然而，在过去的30年里，一个秘密的启示(揭示) 这台机器已经安装在98%的美国家庭中。

2003年9月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In fact, all the classes did not prepare me for my battles with the machine I ran in the plant, which would jam whenever I absent-mindedly put in a part backward or upside down.

事实上，所有的课程都没有让我为与工厂里运行的机器的战斗做好准备，每当我心不在焉地把零件倒过来或倒过来时，机器就会卡住。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题试卷（1）

四级The group, which calls itself Professionals Against Machine Scoring of Student Essays in High-Stakes Assessment, has collected nearly 2,000 signatures, including some from famous people like Noam Chomsky.

该组织自称为“专业人士反对在高风险评估中对学生论文进行机器评分”，已经收集了近2000个签名，其中包括一些来自诺姆·乔姆斯基等名人的签名。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套)

四级Often they come from very famous institutions where, in fact, they do a much better job of providing feedback than a machine ever could,” Dr. Shermis said.

他们通常来自非常著名的机构，事实上，他们在提供反馈方面比机器做得更好，”Shermis博士说。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套)

考研The helicopter has now become an extremely useful machine.

直升机现在已经成为一种非常有用的机器。

1987年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研One corporation economist says the growth of “machine job replacement” has been with us since the beginning of the industrial revolution, but never at the pace it is now.

一位企业经济学家表示，自工业革命开始以来，“机器工作替代”的增长就一直伴随着我们，但从未像现在这样快。

1989年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研“It’s humiliating to be done out of your job by a machine and there is no way to fight back, but it is the effort to find a new job that really hurts.

“被机器解雇是一种耻辱，没有办法反击，但真正令人痛苦的是寻找新工作的努力。

1989年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研What accounts for the great outburst of major inventions in early America— breakthroughs such as the telegraph, the steamboat and the weaving machine?

是什么导致了早期美国重大发明的大爆发——比如电报、汽船和织机的突破？

1996年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment.

他们制造的机器人可以在受控的工厂环境中识别出几分之一毫米的机器面板误差。

2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研In spite of “endless talk of difference,” American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people.

尽管“无休止地谈论差异”，但美国社会是一台将人们同质化的神奇机器。

2006年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研In 1997 he lost $21,000 to one slot machine in two days.

1997年，他在两天内输给了一台老虎机2.1万美元。

2006年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题