Sometimes people feel the cost of using a human translator is too great. They decide to use a machine translation program instead. There are a variety of such programs available, including some that offer their services online. But the best that can be said for them is that they are not very good. I used one of the well-known online machine translation programs to perform a test.
I wanted a sample of English text that was relatively easy to understand, so I chose this passage from a book for foreign students to study English:
Original English: The Golden Gate Bridge is a beautiful bridge. It is a suspension bridge in San Francisco. The bridge opened in 1937.
I then ran the text through the translator three times -- once for Simplified Chinese, once for Japanese, once for Korean. I took the results for each language and ran them back through the same translator to translate back to English. These are the results:
Simplified Chinese: The gold
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A.作业指导书(卡) B.派工单 C.任务单 D.工作记录 [单选题]患者的被服、床单位处理,错误的有( )
A.、被服、枕芯、床垫定期消毒。 B.、被体液、血液污染的被服及时更换。 C.、禁止在病房清点更换下来的衣物。 D.、可以在走廊清点更换下来的衣物。 [单选题]下列有关以太网的叙述中,正确的是________。
A. 它采用点到点的方式(而非广播方式)进行数据通信 B. 信息帧中只需要包含接收节点的MAC地址 C. 信息帧中需要同时包含发送节点和接收节点的MAC地址 D. 以太网只采用总线型拓扑结构 [单选题]BS30型双级离心泵中,两个叶轮“()”地对称排列,可自动平衡轴向力。
A.面对面 B.背靠背 C.平行 D.同向 [多选题]作业中遇( )必须试拉。
A.连续连挂最后一组(辆)车后 B.推送车辆前 C.连续连挂作业中连挂车组间隔超过10车时 D.编组列车及列车摘挂的最后一钩作业完了时 [单项选择]
Text 3 [判断题]氮气是一种既不燃烧,也不助燃的气体。
A.正确 B.错误 我来回答: 提交
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