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Перевод: automaton

[существительное]
автомат

Тезаурус:

1. Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends, and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else, as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer.
2. And after his death it seemed to her that she had walked in darkness like an automaton through a deep and narrow canyon of grief in which all her energies, all her physical strength, had been husbanded to get through each day.
3. It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man, would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself.
4. The homeostat , the automaton concerned only to preserve its own equilibrium, was never a convincing model of human behaviour.
5. If you weren't to be turned into a zombie, a walking automaton, in the absence of other night-people, incidents had to be manufactured.
6. This does not mean you should behave like an automaton.
7. The presence, in a volume of water, of even one such cellular automaton would be enough to impress the pattern on the whole of that body of water.
8. The late Ronald Shor, a psychologist at the University of New Hampshire, emphasised that the hypnotised subject is not a will-less automaton.
9. It bends the automaton, which persuades the mind without its thing about the matter.
10. A cellular automaton is a mathematical model which has, like DNA, the power of self-replication, and the principle of cellular automata is believed to underlie a number of the phenomena seen in the natural world, such as the complex patterns of colour on the shells of some molluscs, the coat patterns of some mammalian species and the vortex patterns of water.
11. The other characters were a sold-out leftie academic (who drew much knowing laughter from the first-night audience), a right-wing academic, a military automaton, and an Amstrad word-processor which enigmatically took the floor in a central scene.
12. And the engineer - or scientist - an automaton, his imagination chained to a drawing board by a formula and a slide rule.
13. In the early scenes she sometimes seems less like a human than a terrified wild animal, and she is in extraordinary form in her first public apppearance at Mrs Higgins's tea party, moving with the stiffness of an automaton and speaking in a voice that sounds like a Martian after a course at the Berlitz.