calculating machine

基本解释

and it says that financial markets act, essentially, like a giant calculating machine
它说，金融市场行为，本质上，像一个巨大的计算机
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Yet he was far more than a desiccated calculating machine, as Graham Farmelo’s biography shows.
然而在格雷姆•法米罗的这篇传记中，他也绝不是一台干巴巴的计算机器。
But it makes the sort of sense that in the 1950s inspired Nye Bevan, a firebrand on the left of Britain’s Labour Party, to describe the centrist Hugh Gaitskell as a “desiccated calculating machine”.
但是这种情理在上世纪50年代，激发了英国工党左翼激进分子奈贝文将中间派的Hugh Gaitskell视作“风干的计算器”。

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