Now this is a rain gauge, and it's sitting on a roof of a building, and when the water falls into this gauge, it sends a signal to the logic unit of the computer, which immediately notifies the memory bank of the computer to seek out its instructions for a rainy day.

这是一个雨量测量器，安装在一个楼房的,屋顶上，当水流入到这个测量器，它就给计算机的逻辑部件发送一个信号，计算机立即通知内存条,为下雨天找出相应的指令。

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But I don't really have a gauge on it yet

但我没有真正地估算过，

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There were some twelve to fifteen different widths of railroads in the Northern states alone by the 1850s, and you could go into one town on a gauge, i don't know, three feet wide but on the other side of town it would come out four feet wide.

在五十年代,单就北方州的铁道,就有十二到十五种不同的轨距,你可能在一条三英尺宽的铁道上进镇,但在另一边出镇时,它变成四英尺宽了

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