职称英语综合备考：概括大意中英文对照（7）

Intelligent Machines
智能机器

　　1　Medical scientists are already putting computer chips（芯片）directly into the brain to help people who haveParkinson’s disease, but in what other ways might computer technology be ableto help us? Ray Kurzweil is author of the successful book The Age of Intelligent Machines and is one of the world’s bestcomputer research scientists. He is researching the possibilities.
　　医学科学家已经通过把计算机芯片直接放入大脑来帮助那些患有帕金森病的人，但计算机技术在其他方面又能够帮助我们什么呢? Ray Kurzweil是《智能机器时代》这本书的作者，这本书相当成功；同时他也是世界上最优秀的计算机研究科学家之一。他正在研究计算机技术所能带来的可能性。

　　2　Kurzweil gets computers to recognize voices. Anexample of this is Ramona, the virtual（虚拟的）hostessof Kurzweil’s homepage, who is programmed to understand what you say. Visitorsto the site can have their conversations with her, and Ramona also dances andsings.
　　Kurzweil让计算机来识别声音。这方面的一个例子是Ramona，Kurzweil网站首页的虚拟女主持人，她被设置为可以理解你所说的话。网站的访问者可以和她谈话，Ramona也会跳舞唱歌。

　　3　Kurzweil uses this technology to help people withphysical disabilities. One of his ideas is a “seeing machine”. This will be“like a friend that could describe what is going on in the visible world”, heexplains. Blind people will use a visual sensor（探测器）whichwill probably be built into a pair of sunglasses. This sensor will describe tothe person everything it sees.
　　Kurzweil用计算机技术来帮助有生理残疾的人。他的一个构思是"视觉机器"。该机器"像一个朋友一样，能够描述有形世界里正在发生的事情"，他解释道。盲人将使用一种视觉探测器，这种探测器可能会被嵌入到墨镜里。它将向佩戴者描述它所看到的一切。

　　4　Another idea, which is likely to help deaf people, isthe “listening machine”. This invention will recognize millions of words andunderstand any speaker. The listening machine will also be able to translateinto other languages, so even people without hearing problems are likely to beinterested in using it.
　　他的另一个构思是"听觉机器"，这可能会给失聪的人带来帮助。这项发明将识别数百万词汇并能理解任何人说的话。听觉机器也能将话语翻译成其他语言，因此即使没有听觉问题的人也可能会对使用它感兴趣。

　　5　But it is not just about helping people withdisabilities. Looking further into the future, Kurzweil sees a time when wewill be able to download our entire consciousness onto a computer. Thistechnology probably won’t be ready for at least 50 years, but when it arrives,it means our minds will be able to live forever.
　　但计算机不仅仅是帮助残障人士。展望更远的将来，Kurzweil看到这样的时代，我们将能够把所有意识下载到电脑里。这项技术很可能要至少50年后才会完成，但当它成功之时，就意味着我们的意识能够永远活下去。