The idea of some kind of visual persistence goes back long before Babbage's dinner party, even to ancient Greece and Egypt.

视觉持久性的想法可以追溯到巴贝奇的晚宴之前，甚至可以追溯到古希腊和埃及。

But more importantly, during construction of the Difference Engine, Babbage imagined an even more complex machine - the Analytical Engine.

但更重要的是，在差分机的建造期间 Charles Babbage想象一个更复杂的机器 - 分析机。

She showed it to Babbage, and she said, " Couldn't I do better than this? " , basically.

她把它拿给巴贝奇看 然说：“我难道不能写得比这更好吗？”

Those two dolls had no real purpose except for pure fun, a laugh, a shot of dopamine, but they changed Babbage's life.

那两个玩偶粹的乐趣、笑声、多巴胺之外没有真正的目的，但他们改变巴贝奇的生活。

But, in 1991, historians finished constructing a Difference Engine based on Babbage's drawings and writings - and it worked!

然，在1991年 历史学家根据Charles Babbage的草稿建成一个差分机 且它能正常使用！

Babbage started construction in 1823, and over the next two decades, tried to fabricate and assemble the 25,000 components, collectively weighing around 15 tons.

Charles Babbage于1823年开始建造差分机并在接下来的二十年里，试图制造和组装25000个零件 这些零件总重接近15吨。

Well, after dinner, Herschel asked Babbage a question, " How can you see two sides of a coin at the same time? "

晚饭，尔问巴贝奇一个问题，“你如何能同时看到硬币的两面？”

The Analytical Engine would inspire, arguably, the first generation of computer scientists, who incorporated many of Babbage's ideas in their machines.

分析机将会激励（可以这么讲）第一代计算机科学家，这些计算机科学家们将许多Charles Babbage的想法纳入他们的机器。

Well, there was actually, it was, so it's like... Funkoland, Babbage's, EB, and GameStop.

好吧，其实，那是，所以就像… … 疯狂乐园、巴比奇、电子商店和游戏驿站。

Though orbital data centres may one day offer a greener alternative to their Earth-bound counterparts, on this week's episode of Babbage, our science and technology show, Alok Jha explores the environmental cost of AI back here on Earth.

尽管轨道数据中心未来可能为地球上的同类设施提供更环保的替代方案，但在本周的《巴贝奇》科技节目中，阿尔科克·贾（Alok Jha）探讨人工智能在地球上运行的环境代价。

The idea of some kind of visual persistence  goes back long before Babbage's dinner party, even to ancient Greece and Egypt.

某种视觉持久性的想法可以追溯到巴贝奇的晚宴之前, 甚至可以追溯到古希腊和古埃及。

Babbage imagined an even more complex machine - the Analytical Engine.

Charles Babbage 构想一个更复杂的机器 - 分析机。

You might also be interested in this week's episode of Babbage, our science and tech podcast, which looks at whether Elon Musk really can send people to Mars before the end of Trump's term.

您可能还会对本周的《巴比奇》节目感兴趣，这是我们关于科学与技术的播客， 探讨埃隆·马斯克是否真能在特朗普任期结束前将人类送上火星。

Paper printers were so useful that even Babbage designed one for his Difference Engine, and that was in the 1820s!

纸打印机非常有用，甚至巴贝奇为他的差分机设计一台，那是在1820年代！

We've stood on the shoulders of giants like Babbage and Lovelace, Hollerith and Turing, Eckert and Hopper, Sutherland and Engelbart, Bush and Berners Lee, Gates and the Woz, and many other computing pioneers.

我们站在像巴贝奇和洛夫莱斯、霍勒瑞斯和图灵、埃克特和霍珀、萨瑟兰和恩格尔巴特、布什和伯纳斯-李、盖茨和沃兹这样的巨人的肩膀上，以及其他许多计算先驱者。

Mathematician Charles Babbage was there with astronomer William Herschel.

数学家查尔斯·巴贝奇和天文学家威廉·尔出席。

In the 1800s, Ada Lovelace and another professor, Charles Babbage, they were saying, " I think we could have computers that work on digital ones and zeros, and actually, these things could solve problems."

在 19 世纪，艾达·勒夫蕾丝和另一位教授，查尔斯·巴贝奇，他们说，" 我想我们可以用电脑来处理数字 0 和 1，事实上，这些东西可以解决问题。"

I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years before I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage.

我发育缓慢，差不多到两百年之，查尔斯 巴比奇才把我制成一台分析机。

On an individual level, we can think of Charles Babbage, the forefather of the modern computer, whose machines were mechanically inspired by his experiences in the silk weaving industry.

在个人层面上, 我们可以想到查尔斯·巴贝奇, 现代计算机的先驱, 他的机器在机械上受到他在丝绸编织行业的经历的启发。

I developed very slowly and it took nearly 200 years before I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage.

在我被Charles Babbage改造成分析机器之前我很慢的发展接近两百年。