Translate the following sentence into Chinese.
And you could buy a Boeing 747 for the cost of a pizza.
We view the growth of the Internet and e-commerce as a global megatrend, along the lines of the printing press, the telephone, the computer, and electricity.
A company called Final Thoughts.com offers a place for you to store “afterlife e-mails” you can send to Heaven with the help of a “guardian angel.”
You would be hard pressed to name something that isn’t available on the Internet.
Nothing like it has been seen since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when power-driven machines began producing more in a day than men could turn out in nearly a year.
If the automobile and aerospace technology had exploded at the same pace as computer and information technology, a new car would cost about $2 and go 600 miles on a thimbleful of gas.
Kids today are so computer savvy that it virtually ensures the United States will remain the unchallenged leader in cyberspace for the foreseeable future.
Probably the biggest payoff, however, is the billions of dollars the Internet is saving companies in producing goods and serving for the needs of their customers.
Even after you’ve moved on to your final resting place, there’s no reason those you love can’t keep in touch.
There are times when computers seem to operate like mechanical "brains", but their achievements are not very great when compared to what the minds of men can do.
Although the machine was not a complete success, it did mark a beginning.
Regardless of their direction of form, computer developments and uses of the future will depend upon the cleverness and skill of men.
Perhaps the first analog computation was the use of graphs for the solution of surveying problems.
Computers can work through a series of problems and make thousands of logical decisions without becoming tired.
As the known influence of these factors changed, the complex equations represented by the insides of the machine would give continual indications of how the tides were to rise and fall.
Computers can reach solutions to problems in a fraction of time it takes men to do the job.
Computers have no originality so they work according to the instructions given to them.
The machine contained pulleys, levers, and weights whose actions imitated the effect of winds, the moon, and the sun on tides.
Among the first analog computers, there was one set up by Lord Kelvin in 1872 to predict the height of tides in English harbors.