He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.

他仿佛只是一个机器人，言行举动全由游复无常的意志来驱动。

The red automaton opposite lapsed into silence, nodded, and followed his example.

坐在对面的红色机器人陷入沉思，点点头，按韦狄的数目下注。

Back in the 17th century, clock makers started turning the wheels from clocks into these moving robots called automata.

早在 17 世纪，时钟制造商就开始将时钟的轮子变成这些称为自动机的移动机器人。

A high-spec automaton powered by artificial intelligence (AI), he isn't quite human though it is hard to say why.

他是一个由人工智能(AI)驱动的高规格机器人，虽然很难说出原因，他并不完全是人类。

Do you think I am an automaton?

你以为我是机器人吗？

Greek engineers began making actual automatons including robotic servants and flying models of birds.

希腊工程师开始制造真正的自动机，包括机器人仆人和鸟类的飞行模型。

" Try an 'automaton, '" said the shopman.

“试试‘自动机’，”店员说。

These non-electrical and certainly non-electronic machines were called automatons.

这些非电力和当然非电子机器被称为自动机。

They move to their terrible end as automatons move.

随着机器人的移动，他们走怕的结局。

Descartes considered an animal to be a kind of complicated automaton.

笛卡尔认为动物是一种复杂的自动机。

That automaton of a husband is more harm to her than good.

丈夫的机器人对她弊大于利。

" The bull automaton will reach you in a moment! "

“公牛机器人马上就会到你身边！”

If I decide to run after a bus, the whole 'automaton' goes into action.

如果我决定追一辆公共汽车，整个“自动机”就会开始行动。

" If the automaton returns to Hera and Hephaestus, they could come looking for us."

“如果机器人回到赫拉和赫菲斯托斯那里，他们能会来找我们。”

I bought an " automaton" once in April, and I did have a time with it!

我在四月份买一个“自动机” ，我确实玩得很开心！

I used to overdress, it is true, but more like an automaton, with no particular design.

我曾经穿得过分， 这是真的，更像是一个自动机， 没有特别的设计。

The word 'automaton' means precisely that – something that moves of its own accord.

“自动机”这个词的意思恰恰是——自动移动的东西。

Mr Musk's car company is developing one such artificially intelligent automaton, codenamed Optimus, for use at home and in the factory.

马斯克先生的汽车公司正在开发一种代号为 Optimus 的人工智能自动机，供家庭和工厂使用。

Mr. St. John spoke almost like an automaton: himself only knew the effort it cost him thus to refuse.

圣约翰先生说话几乎像个机器人：他自己只知道他要如此拒绝要付出多大的努力。

" I can't get over the fact that Descartes compared the human body to a machine or an automaton" .

“我无法忘记笛卡尔将人体比作机器或自动机这一事实”。