财富精英励志演讲50：信息技术的力量(5)

 　　In the farmer suitacle industry, the ability to simulate the interaction of chemicals, and do it in the computer rather than in test-tubes and Petri dishes, can speed up by years the discovery and testing of new farmer suitacle.

　　在农业育种工业，如果我们能模仿化学元素之间的相互作用，用计算机而不是用试管和培养皿做试验，我们将可以几年几年的缩短农业新品种的发现和测试时间。

　　Mercedes, BMW, Fiat¹, Volvo, SAAM all design cars today on computers, no physical markups, no models. And aviation does so, pioneer many of these techniques, and Boeing broke new ground when it designed the 777 airplane entirely² on computers. It was a very bold move, and even some of Boeing's engineers had trepidations.

　　梅塞德斯、宝马、菲亚特、沃尔沃......现在都在计算机上设计汽车，不再需要实际制做模型。航空工业也是这些技术的积极倡导者，波音公司破天荒地将 777 飞机的设计完全在计算机上完成。这是一个非常大胆的举动。甚至是一些波音的工程师都感到恐慌。

　　I had trepidations because three month after I joined IBM I went out to Boeing to see my good friend Frank SCHURZ , who was the CEO. And Frank said to me, "Since this new airplane was built on your computers, maybe you should go on the first flight." And I said, "It is my wife's birthday." And he said, "I did not even tell you the date yet. Coward!"

　　我也感到恐慌，因为在我加入 IBM 三个月后去拜访我的好朋友波音公司 CEO Frank 时，Frank 对我说："既然这种新飞机是在你们的计算机上建造的，那么也许你应该参加它的首次试飞。"我回答说："那天是我妻子的生日。"他说："可是我还没告诉你试飞的日期呢。胆小鬼！"

　　Computer simulation saves time, saves money, and it gives customers a competitive advantage, and it can do more than that. Recently the US department of energy asked IBM to build a gigantic super computer to simulate nuclear weapons so that they will never have to be exploded for test purposes, ever again.

　　计算机模拟能够节省时间、节省费用、能使用户更具竞争力，它还能做更多的事。最近美国能源部要求 IBM 建造一台巨型超级计算机用以模拟核武器，这样他们就再也不用进行核爆炸试验了。

1 fiat   

n.命令，法令，批准；vt.批准，颁布

参考例句：

• The opening of a market stall is governed by municipal fiat.开设市场摊位受市政法令管制。
• He has tried to impose solutions to the country's problems by fiat.他试图下令强行解决该国的问题。

2 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。