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In economics, the parallel is this: If the unitary cost of technology ("per megabyte" or "per megabit per second" or "per thousand floating-point operations per second") is halving every 18 months, when does it come close enough to zero to say that you've arrived and can safely round down to nothing?

在经济学中，这个悖论为：如果技术的单位成本（"每兆"或"每兆每秒"，或"每千浮点次运转每秒"）每十八个月下降一倍，那要等到什么时候，它才能如此地接近于零，以致于你总算可以善罢甘休，并安然地将其忽略不计呢？

Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

347关于宇宙日益扩大进化的冥想：新月期的月亮，即使在近地点也看不见。从地表向地轴挖掘纵深五千英尺的圆筒状垂直轴，一个观察者呆在轴底儿上，就连白昼也辨认得出那漫无止境、网络状、亮光闪闪、非凝结性的银河。天狼距地球十光年（五七、000、000、000、000英里）；体积大于地球九百倍；大角；岁差运动；有着&猎户&腰带、六倍于太阳的&伐二&以及星云的猎户座，星云中能容纳我们的一百个太阳系；死去的和新生的星宿，例如一九0 一年的那颗&新星&我们的太阳系正朝着武仙座冲去；所谓恒星的视差或视差移动，也就是说，实际上恒星是在不断地从无限遥远的太古朝无限遥远的未来移动着。相形之下，人的寿命充其量才七十年，不过是无限短暂的一段插曲而已。

The waiter said:"It is really a good tea. If you don't believe me, you take a look yourself." Lou was handed the tea bowl doubtfully, seeing the color of soup red, dense and bright, having a drink, melon and smooth, really better one hundred times than usual one. He perked up at once bethinking of why thus?

小二说：&真的是好茶，你咋个不信，自己瞧瞧&，罗千总这才半信半疑地接过小二端来的茶碗，一看汤色红浓明亮，喝上一口，甘醇爽滑，的确赛过自己平常喝的茶百倍。

Good tea. If you don't believe me, you take a look yourself. Lou washanded the tea bowl doubtfully, seeing the color of soup red, dense andbright, having a drink, melon and smooth, really better one hundred timesthan usual one. He perked up at once bethinking of why thus?

小二说：&真的是好茶，你咋个不信，自己瞧瞧&，罗千总这才半信半疑地接过小二端来的茶碗，一看汤色红浓明亮，喝上一口，甘醇爽滑，的确赛过自己平常喝的茶百倍。

The elastic strains induced in the epicentral region by the passage of the seismic wavefield generated by the largest of the nuclear tests, the May 11 Indian test with an estimated yield of 40 kilotons, is about 100 times smaller than the strains induced by the Earth's semi-diurnal (12 hour) tides that are produced by the gravitational fields of the Moon and the Sun.

由核试验产生的震动波经过而诱发了在震中区域的弹性应变。5月11日估计有40千吨产物地印度的核试验，比由月球和太阳引力引起的12小时一次的潮汐引发的应变小100倍。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。