Or the slide rule, for assisting with multiplication and division.

或者计算尺，用于辅助乘法和除法。

Right? So, what is a slide rule?

正确的？那么， 什么是计算尺？

Nobody uses a slide rule, unless you go to maybe Oxford in the 1960s.

没有人使用计算尺， 除非你在 1960 年代上过牛津大学。

Now, what tips would you give people who are looking to run the slide rule over making a new investment?

现在， 您会给那些希望在进行新投资时使用计算尺的人提供什么建议？

For most people, it was the first time they didn't have to do math on paper or use a slide rule.

对于大多数人来说，这是他们第一次不必在纸上做数学或使用计算尺。

The parting in his short gray hair was almost unnaturally straight, and his narrow toothbrush mustache looked as though he trimmed it using a slide rule.

他银色的短发几乎被不自然地梳得笔直，他的短小胡子，像是比着滑尺修剪过的。

The guy with blueprints; the guy in a three-piece suit; the guy with a slide rule and calculator; the guy that's going to pave the forest and perhaps destroy whole ecosystems.

这些人带着蓝图，穿着三件套西装，随身携带着卷尺和计算器，这些人会在森林里修路，甚至可能摧毁整个生态系统。