calculating machine

基本解釋

and it says that financial markets act, essentially, like a giant calculating machine
它說，金融市場行為，本質上，像一個巨大的計算機
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Yet he was far more than a desiccated calculating machine, as Graham Farmelo’s biography shows.
然而在格雷姆?法米羅的這篇傳記中，他也絕不是一臺干巴巴的計算機器。
But it makes the sort of sense that in the 1950s inspired Nye Bevan, a firebrand on the left of Britain’s Labour Party, to describe the centrist Hugh Gaitskell as a “desiccated calculating machine”.
但是這種情理在上世紀50年代，激發(fā)了英國工黨左翼激進分子奈貝文將中間派的Hugh Gaitskell視作“風干的計算器”。

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