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Our local library keeps a medieval clock in a glass box.我们本地的图书馆里放着一只「中世纪」的钟，装在玻璃柜里。 Its mechanism has more than three hundred small parts.它的「机械装置」有三百多个小零件。 Nobody knows who made it.没人知道是谁做的。 I joined a club that studies old machines there.我加入了那里的一个研究旧机器的社团。 The membership costs almost nothing.「会员资格」几乎不花钱。

Every week we meet in a room of medium size.每周我们在一间「中等」大小的房间里见面。 The menu lists tea, bread and fruit.「菜单」上写着茶、面包和水果。 We talk about how old tools worked.我们聊旧工具是怎么运作的。 A mere look at the clock tells you nothing.「单单」看一眼那只钟，什么也看不出来。 You must touch nothing and merely watch.你什么都不能碰，只能「只是」看着。

Last month a medical student came to our meeting.上个月，一位「医科」学生来参加我们的聚会。 She said the clock was like the human body.她说那只钟就像人的身体。 Old medicine used simple machines for pulling bones.古代的「医学」也用简单的机械来拉骨头。 The doctor of medieval times had few tools.中世纪的医生没有几件工具。 He worked by hand and by careful thought.他靠双手和细心的思考干活。

She drew the mechanism on the board and named each part.她把机械装置画在黑板上，给每个零件起了名字。 Then she asked a question about mental effort.然后她问了一个关于「脑力」付出的小问题。 Learning a machine, she said, is like learning a language.她说，学一台机器就像学一门语言。 You need patience more than a good memory.你需要的是耐心，而不是好记性。