英语必修五第三单元课文翻译

英语必修五第三单元课文翻译
WHO AM I?
Over time I have been changed quite a lot. I began as a calculating machine in France in 1642. Although I was young I could simplify difficult sums.
I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years before I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an operator who used cards with holes, I could "think" logically and produce an answer quicker than any person. At that time it was considered a technological revolution and the start of my "artificial intelligence". In 1936 my real father, Alan Turing, wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a "universal machine" to solve any difficult mathematical problem. From then on, I grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s I had grown as large as a room, and I wondered if I would grow any larger. However, this reality also worried my designers. As time went by, I was made smaller. First as a PC (personal computer) and then as a laptop, I have been used in offices and homes since the 1970s.
These changes only became possible as my memory improved. First it was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. As a result I totally changed my shape. As I have grown older I have also grown smaller. Over time my memory has developed so much that, like an elephant, I never forget anything I have been told! And my memory became
so large that even I couldn't believe it! But I was always so lonely standing there by myself, until in the early 1960s they gave me a family connected by a network. I was able to share my knowledge with others through the World Wide Web.
Since the 1970s many new applications have been found for me. I have become very important in communication, finance and trade. I have also been put into robots and used to make mobile phones as well as help with medical operations. I have even been put into space rockets and sent to explore the Moon and Mars. Anyhow, my goal is to provide humans with a life of high quality. I am now truly filled with happiness that I am a devoted friend and helper of the human race!
我是谁？
随着时间的流逝，我在不断的发生变化。

1642年，在法国我初次以计算机的身份登场。

尽管我那时很年轻，我已能够简化一些复杂的计算题。

我进化得比较缓慢，直到两百年后，我才被查尔斯•巴贝奇改造成分析仪。

一个程序员用打孔卡片给我设计了一套程序，那以后我具有了逻辑思维，计算结果的速度比任何人都快。

那时我被认为是一次技术革命，是人工智能的起步。

1936年，我名副其实的父亲阿兰•图灵写了一本关于我的书。

他在书中描述了如何使我成为全球通用的机器并且解决任何数学上的难题。

从那时起，我的身材和智力都发展的比较快。

到19世纪40年代，我已经变得和一间小房间那么大了，我在担心我以后会不会变得更大。

我庞大的体型也愁坏了我的那些设计者。

时光飞逝，我逐渐变小，从
个人电脑蜕变成了笔记本电脑。

从1970年开始，我就已经被用于办公室和家里。

当然了，我的这些变化只能在我内存提高的情况下发生。

开始的时候，内存是在电子管里的，后来在晶体管里，再后来就是储存在小小的芯片里了。

也是因为如此，我完全地变了模样。

我年纪越大，体型就越小，我的记忆力越来越好，就像一头大象的记忆力一样。

我从不会忘记任何被告知的事情。

我的记忆力强大到连我自己都难以置信。

美中不足的是我一个人呆着总是感到孤独。

19世纪60年代早期，我的设计员给我联网了。

我能够通过环球信息网和其它同伴分享知识。

19世纪70年代开始，人类为我找了很多新的装置。

我在交际，金融和贸易上已经举足轻重。

我还被植入机器人身体里，并且用来制造手机，我也会协助医疗手术。

我已经被装进航空火箭系统，被派遣去探索月球和火星。

不论我做了什么，我的目的是提供人类高质量的生活。

能成为人类的忠心的朋友和助手，我的内心快乐无比。

我依然不相信我在去年我赢得的奖，我必须不断的擦眼睛来提醒自己，我已经到 3005年去旅游过了，由于担心这次旅行，我开始几天很不安，结果，我受到了时滞的困扰，有点象坐飞机时的飞行时差，但不同的是，你得保持从你从以前的时间急转，所以一开始我感觉很紧张，我的向导朋友王平很理解我，并给了我很大的支持鼓励。

他们的专业技术众所周知，他父母的公司叫做“未来旅行”，他们用时间太空舱把我安全的送到了未来。

他们让我们六个一起通过一个圆形开口走进太空舱，里面的座位很舒服，喝了能让我们想睡觉和闭上眼睛的压惊饮料后，太空舱开始摇晃，象躺在梦中一样。

当太空舱轻轻摇摆着慢慢从地上升起来的时候，巨大的声音从我们的脚下方向传来，几分钟后，旅行完成了，我们已经到了未来，我依然在地球上，但那是多年
后的地球，我能发现什么呢?。