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1、Useful Expressions from Dont Fear Intelligent Machines.Work with them.Direction:Here are some useful expressions from this units TED Talk.Read aloud the sentences and try tomemorize the useful expression(s)in each sentence.1.I won allthe games,and then it was not consideredmuch of a surprise that I

2、could beat32 computersat the same time.我赢得了所有的对弈，能够同时打败 32 台电脑，对我来说也不算是什么大惊喜。2.Just 12 years later,I was fighting for my life against just one computer in a match called by the cover of NewsweekThe Brains LastStand.就在 12 年后，我拼劲全力与一台电脑对弈，这场对弈，新闻周刊的封面报道称之为“人脑的背水一战”。3.Frommythology to science fiction,h

3、uman versusmachine hasbeen often portrayed as a matterof life and death.从神话到科幻，人类对弈电脑，经常被形容为生死攸关的问题。4.John Henry,called the steel-driving man in the 19th centuryAfricanAmerican folk legend,was pitted in a race againsta steam-powered hammerbashing a tunnelthrough mountainrock.John Henry，19 世纪非洲裔美国人,民

4、间传说中的钢铁勇士“，在开凿山石隧道时与一台蒸汽动力锤进行了生死较量。5.Jobs are being killed off.工作机会正在消失。6.Instead,it was my blessing and my curse to literally become the proverbial man in the man versus machinecompetition that everybody is stilltalking about.然而，我成为人们仍在谈论的 人类与机器的对抗中的 那个传奇人物，这既是我的福祉，也是对我的诅咒。7.Andin 1997,I wasstillth

5、e world championwhen chess computersfinally came of age.在 1997 年会下棋的电脑问世之时，我仍然是世界冠军。8.Hats off to them.向他们致敬9.As always,machines triumph was a human triumph,something we tend to forget when humans are surpassed by ourown creations.一如既往，机器的胜利就是人类的胜利，当人类被自己的创造超越后，这一点就常常被遗忘了。10.But even at the incredib

6、le speed,200 million positions per second,Deep Blues method provided little of thedreamed-ofinsightinto the mysteries ofhuman intelligence.但是即使以每秒 2 亿次的惊人计算速度，深蓝的方法也只探索了人类智慧谜题中的一丁点儿。11.I was used to measuring their moves and to gauging their emotional state by watching their body language andlooking

7、 into their eyes.我习惯于通过观察他们的肢体语言和眼神，考量他们的棋步，摸索他们的心态。12.I immediately sensed something new,something unsettling.我立刻感受到了莫名的气息，有些不安。13.You might experience a similar feeling the first time you ride in a driverless car or the first time your new computermanager issuesan order at work.你可能有过类似的感受，当你第一次坐进一

8、辆无人驾驶汽车，或者是你的新计算机老板在工作中派给你一个任务。14.Technology can advance in leaps,and IBM hadinvested heavily.技术可以跨越式前进，IBM 花了重金。15.And I couldnt help wondering,mightit be invincible?我不停地思考，它会是无敌的吗？16.I fought back afterthisdevastatingblow to win the first match,but the writingwason the wall.在这场惨败后，我卷土重来，赢下了第一场比赛，但

9、结果显而易见。17.Doomsayers predicted that nobody would touch the game that could be conquered by the machine,and they werewrong,proven wrong,butdoomsayinghas alwaysbeen a popular pastime when it comesto technology.悲观者说没有人会再碰可以被机器打败的游戏，而他们错了，事实已经证明了。但是一谈起科技，末日说一直是很流行的消遣说法。18.What I learned from my own expe

10、rience is that we must face our fears if we want to get the most out of ourtechnology,and we must conquerthose fearsif we wantto get the bestoutof ourhumanity.我从自身的经历中所学到就是，如果我们要充分地利用科技，就要面对我们的恐惧，如果我们要最大化地激发人类的潜能，就必须战胜我们的恐惧感。19.Whilelicking my wounds,I got a lot of inspiration frommy battlesagainstD

11、eep Blue.当我自省时，我从和深蓝的对战中 获得了很多灵感。20.Asthe old Russian saying goes,if you cant beatthem,join them.正如古老的俄罗斯谚语所说：如果你不能打败他们，就加入他们。21.Butin thisfirst experiment,we both failedto combine human and machine skills effectively.但是在第一次试验里，我们都没能有效的结合人和机器的技能。22.Advanced Chess found its home on the internet,and i

12、n 2005,a so-called freestyle chess tournament produced arevelation.高阶象棋发迹于网络，在 2005 年，一个被称为自由式象棋竞标赛的比赛诞生了。23.Their skill of coaching their machines effectively counteracted the superior chess knowledge of their grandmasteropponentsand much greatercomputational powerof others.他们有效操作电脑的技能胜过了他们的大师级对手超高

13、的象棋知识，也胜过了电脑更强大的计算能力。24.This convinced me that we would need better interfaces to help us coach our machines towards more usefulintelligence.这让我确信，我们需要更好的界面去帮助我们的电脑学习，来实现更有用的智能。25.Then we use our human experience to make senseoutof that,and then the machine learnsfromour corrections.然后我们结合我们的人类经验让这变

14、得合理，而电脑从我们的更改中学习升级。26.So we need a leap forwardto add a few more crucialdecimal places.所以我们需要跨越式前进，提高准确度。27.Instead,we should worry about what they still cannot do today,because we will need the help of the new,intelligentmachinesto turn ourgrandest dreams into reality.相反，我们应该为它们今日仍不能做的感到担心，因为我们需要新的智能机器的帮助，来实现我们宏伟的梦想。28.Let us dream big.让我们的梦想更深远一些吧。