Player Piano describes a place called Ileum where the humans have surrendered to a computer.

《自动钢琴》描述了一个叫做Ileum的地方，这里的人类向一台电脑投降。

Most people these days think of the player piano as a novelty or a gimmick.

如今，大多数人认为自动钢琴是一种新奇事物或一个噱头。

In nineteen fifty-two he wrote his first novel. Player Piano was influenced by Vonnegut's work at the power company, General Electric.

1952年，他写了自己的第一部小说。《自动钢琴》是受到了冯内古特在通用电气工作的。

We're talking about the player piano.

我们正在谈论自动钢琴。

When Scott was a kid, people thought the player piano would be the future of music.

当斯科特还是个孩子的时候，人们认为自动钢琴将是音乐的未来。

He walked from automatic pianos to the first computers.

他从自动钢琴走到了第一台电脑。

Copyright laws in the United States were built around the player piano and the record player in equal part.

美国的版权法同样是围绕自动钢琴和电唱机制定的。

A player piano for the space age.

太空时代的自动钢琴。

He told me that he taught himself to play the piano with a player piano.

他告诉我，他是用自动钢琴自学弹钢琴的。

And this knocked me out when I first heard it in the archives, but he was still thinking about the player piano.

当我第一次在档案馆中听到它时，这让我震惊，但他仍然在思考自动钢琴。

But I think there's something in his music that testifies to his soul–that ghost at the keys of the player piano.

但我认为他的音乐中有一些东西证明了他的灵魂——自动钢琴琴键上的幽灵。

The machine would be a culmination of everything he'd worked on up to that point, including the player piano from his childhood.

这台机器将是他迄今为止所做的一切工作的巅峰之作，包括他童年时期的自动钢琴。

McGonigle's back was just in front of him and, beyond, there was a brightly lit empty bar-room in which an automatic piano was playing to itself.

McGonigle 的背就在他面前，远处是一间灯火通明的空荡荡的酒吧间， 里面有一架自动钢琴正在自言自语。

When Kurt Vonnegut wrote his first novel about a dystopian America run by engineers and their automatic machinery, he called it Player Piano.

当库尔特·冯内古特（Kurt Vonnegut）写他的第一部关于由工程师及其自动机器营的反乌托邦美国的小说时，他将其称为自动钢琴。

But the player piano was a kind of robot, too–one we often forget about, but an early, massively influential one that foreshadowed so much of what was to come.

但自动钢琴也是一种机器人——我们常忘记它，但它是一种早期的、具有巨大力的机器人，预示着未来的发展。