INTRO The earliest recognized device for computing was the abacus, invented in Mesopotamia around 2500 BCE.

曲...最早被认可的计算设备是算盘 大约公元前2500年发明于美索不达米亚。

Kind of like when hitting 10 on that basic abacus.

类似于当算盘敲到10时。

According to my abacus, that's 200,000 man-years of hard labor.

按照我的算盘，那是20万工年的苦工。

From the abacus, to room-sized machines, to desktops, to computers in our pockets.

从算盘，到房间大小的机器，到台式机，再到我们口袋里的电脑。

In the 16th century, the era of the counting rods came to an end to be completely replaced by the abacus.

在16世纪，算筹的时代结束了，完全为算盘所取代。

Though the month was February below it was May in the abacus of the column.

虽然下面的月份是二月， 但在列的算盘中是五月。

The earliest computers were manual counting devices, like the abacus, while later ones used mechanical parts.

最早的计算机是手动计数设备，如算盘，而后来的计算机则使用机械零件。

The abacus was created because, the scale of society had become greater than what a single person could keep and manipulate in their mind.

人们制造算盘是因为社会的规模已经比人可以在脑中储存和操作的规模更大。

There are many variants of the abacus, but let's look at a really basic version with each row representing a different power of ten.

算盘有许多的变种，但让我们来看看基本的版本其每行代表着10的不同次方。

These were very early abacuses, which developed around 4,000 years ago into the more traditional style of beads threaded onto rods and set into a frame.

这些都是非常早期的算盘，大约在4000年前发展为更传统的形状，将珠子穿过杆并镶嵌框架。

For example, I remember when I got the information about China it came with an " abacus, " the sort of traditional Chinese calculator.

例如，我记得当我获得有关中国的信息时，它附带了“算盘”，种传统的中国计算器。

In fact, for certain problems that are of great interest to us, today's fastest supercomputer is closer to an abacus than to a quantum computer.

事实上， 对于我们非常感兴趣的某些问，当今最快的超级计算机更接近算盘而不是量子计算机。

It is a tale that starts with a 42,000-year-old tally stick found in South Africa and moves through finger-counting systems to the abacus and the slide-rule.

这故事从在南非发现的根有 42,000 年历史的计数棒开始，通过手指计数系统发展到算盘和计算尺。

Mr Hunt, a former foreign secretary, has put the Treasury firmly back in control of policy, a humiliation for Ms Truss, who had promised to rip up " abacus economics" .

前外交大臣亨特让财政部重新牢牢掌握了政策的控制权，这对曾承诺撕毁“算盘经济学”的特拉斯来说是种羞辱。

83. The intelligent biologist and athletic mountain climber were on a voyage to reach the peak where they would use their abacus to collect statistics for mathematics biology and ecology experiments in a new climate.

这位聪明的生物学家和健壮的登山队员处于攀向峰顶的途中，在那儿（峰顶）他们将使用算盘，为在新气候下的数学生物学和生态学实验收集数据。

All was warm, sunny, and silent, except that a solitary bee, which had somehow got within the hollow of the abacus, was singing round inquiringly, unable to discern that ascent was the only mode of escape.

切都是温暖的、阳光明媚的、寂静的，除了只孤零零的蜜蜂，它不知怎么钻进了算盘的空心，在周围盘旋着询问地歌唱，看不出上升是唯的逃生方式。