" If only you could see the lovely reading machines we used to have in London! " He began reading.

“你要是能够看见那些可爱的朗读机就好了！我们在伦敦常用的。”他读了起来。

Mr. Kurzweil's first reading machine was the size of a washing machine. It cost $50,000. The technology has continued to improve over the past 20 years.

Kurzweil 先生的第一台阅读机有洗衣机那么大。它花费了 50,000 美元。在过去的 20 年中，该技术不断改进。

The Savage meanwhile wandered restlessly round the room, peering with a vague superficial inquisitiveness at the books in the shelves, at the sound-track rolls and reading machine bobbins in their numbered pigeon-holes.

这时野蛮人却在屋子里烦躁地走来走去。他带着一种模糊的表面的好奇窥视著书架上的书、录音胶卷和编号的小格子里的阅读机线轴。

Mr. Kurzweil started working on what he called " reading machines" in the early 1970s. The idea came after speaking with a blind person who expressed frustration with the lack of technology to assist blind people.

Kurzweil 先生在 20 世纪 70 年代初开始研究他所谓的“阅读机”。这个想法是在与一位盲人交谈后产生的，他对缺乏帮助盲人的技术表示失望。