From the slave drones of Huxley’s Brave New World to the hollow-headed repli-cants of Heinlein’s Tine Enough for Love and the production-line Hitlers of The Boys from Brazil, clones get a bad press.

从赫胥黎《勇敢的新世界》中的奴隶人到海因莱因《爱够了》中的无脑复制人和《来自巴西的男孩》中生产线上走下的许多希特勒，克隆的名声一直很不好听。

Song to the men of England--P. B. Shelley. Wherefore feed, and clothe, and save, from the cradle to the grave. Those ungrateful drones who would drain your sweat--nay, drink your blood?

给英国人民之歌--雪菜。为什么把那些忘恩负义的懒虫从摇篮到坟墓好好供奉?吃饭、穿衣、救命，一起承担，而他们却要榨尽你们的血汗!

She always drones on about high prices

她老是嘀咕物价太高。

She always drones on about her problems.

她老是嘀咕自己的种种困难。

He always drones on about high prices.

他老是嘀咕物价太高。

He drones bars of Ferrando’s aria de sortita

他用低沉单调的声音哼了几小节费朗多的“出场歌”。

Drones do not work.

雄蜂不工作。

An academician would say that the entertainments of the fashionable world are collections of flowers which attract inconstant butterflies, famished bees, and buzzing drones

一位院士曾说:上流社会的宴会等于是名花的汇集，它会吸引轻浮的蝴蝶、饥饿的贪婪的蜜蜂和嗡嗡营营的雄蜂。

||1: Dr Socha does not expect to see snakelike drones in the skies soon. ||2: However, the ability to slither through holes, to swim and to climb trees and rocks, as well as to glide between elevated features of the landscape, is an attractive mixture for designers of robotic vehicles. ||3: The staggered-wing effect, in which the front of the body helps to provide lift for the back, may also be of interest to aircraft engineers. ||4: In the long term, then, the world’s battlefields may see machines that resemble some people’s worst nightmares, slithering as they do towards the enemy both on the ground and through the air.

||1:Socha博士并未预期蛇形般的遥控飞机即将腾空出世。||2:然而，设计集各种功能于一身的交通工具-全部自动化，能够滑穿孔洞，穿行在水中，爬得大树和岩石，滑行在凹凸不平的风景中-对于设计师来说，很具吸引力。||3:摆动的双翼所产生的效果-机身的前半部分可为后半部分增加提升力，对飞机工程师来说也可能颇感兴趣。||4:从长远来看，在世界战场可以看到那些出现在一些人的噩梦里的飞机，在陆地和空中滑翔，攻打敌人。

||1:To try teaching drones the language of hand signals Mr Song and his colleagues made a series of videos in which various deck officers performed to camera a set of 24 commonly used gestures.||2:They then fed these videos into an algorithm of their own devising that was designed to analyse the position and movement of a human body, and told the algorithm what each gesture represented.||3:The idea was that the algorithm would learn the association and, having seen the same gesture performed by different people, would be able to generalise what was going on and thus recognise gestures performed by strangers.

||1:为了让无人机读懂手语，Yale Song和他的同事制作了一系列视频，视频记录了多位甲板指挥员对着摄象机摆出的24个常用手势。||2:然后他们用一个自己设计的算法（用于分析人体的位置和动作）来处理这些视频，并让算法知道每个手势的意义。||3:他们的设想是，该算法会记住每个手势所对应的意义，而在对不同人摆出的相同手势进行处理后能够概括出手势本身的意义，从而识别任何人摆出的手势。

||1:DECK officers on American aircraft carriers use hand gestures to guide planes around their vessels.||2:These signals are fast, efficient and perfect for a noisy environment.||3:Unfortunately, they work only with people.||4:They are utterly lost on robotic drones -and even if a drone is under the control of a remote pilot deep in the bowels of the ship, that pilot often has difficulty reading them.||5:Since drones are becoming more and more important in modern warfare, this is a nuisance.||6:Life would be easier for all if drones were smart enough to respond directly to a deck officer’s gesticulations.

||1:在美国的航空母舰上，甲板指挥员会用手势指挥母舰附近的飞机。||2:这种信号快速、高效，而且十分适用于嘈杂的环境。||3:但遗憾的是，只有人才能读懂这些手势。||4:在无人机上，这一套完全失效；而即便有飞行员在船舱深处远程操控这架飞机，他往往也很难识别那些手势。||5:这是个麻烦，因为无人机在现代战争里变得越来越重要了。||6:若无人机的智能达到了足以直接响应甲板指挥员手势的程度，那一切都会好很多。

NASA, America’s space agency, has started using them to beam energy to remotely controlled drones .

美国航天局（NASA）已开始利用激光束将能量传送到远程无人驾驶飞机上。

Giving drones a thumbs up.

向无人机打手势。

Already Splash News, a paparazzi photo agency, is dreaming of using the drones to chase celebrities around the Hollywood Hills.

（一家狗仔队图片社）已经在幻想利用“黄蜂”环绕好莱坞山，追踪名人了。

Drones are set to play a large part in the future of policing - but could they affect our personal lives also?

“黄蜂”在未来的警务中将发挥很大的作用——它们也会影响到我们的私人生活吗？

"No guts, no glory, " said Mr. Anderson, who expected some drones to crash.

“没用，无荣誉感的，”安德森说那些盼着无人机坠毁的人。

Cube dwellers and office drones alike shall rejoice at this fun, sexy, satirical antidote to the drudgery of the work day.

“闷在隔断里或者在办公室百无聊赖的人可以借这个有趣、性感、辛辣的网站解除工作日里的沉闷”。

The White House refused to comment on the possibility of using drones in Baluchistan.

白宫拒绝谈论在俾路支使用无人机的可能性。

Surveillance drones could, for example, alert operators only when an area under observation has changed.

比如，监控飞机仅在侦察区域变化时才对操控人员发出警报。

Singer, a technological warfare expert and author of the book Wired for War, has had drones on his mind a lot lately.

彼得·辛格是一位武器技术专家，写了一本名为《战争绞索》的书，最近对无人机的发展进行了探讨。

More must be done to provide helicopters, transport aircraft, drones and better-protected vehicles.

必须要提供直升飞机，运输机，无人驾驶飞机和防护更好的车辆。

Grey areas already exist, however - particularly with the recreational use of drones .

不管怎样，灰色地区已经存在——特别是因为娱乐业使用了无人机。

But a spokesman said the agency is working with private industry on standards that could allow the broader use of drones .

不过，一位发言人表示，该机构正在和私人企业讨论有关允许广泛使用无人机的标准。

A fly hums (buzzes, drones ).

苍蝇嗡嗡（哼哼）叫。

The lawless region, a haven for members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, has been repeatedly targeted by US drones .

此地区尚无法律，是塔利班组织的聚集地，是美军战斗机的长期袭击对象。

Moreover, as this newspaper has argued before, armed drones do not undermine the rules of war.

此外，正如本报过去所言，武装无人机并不会损害战争法的根基。

But the US Air Force plans to have a single pilot operating up to four drones at a time.

但美国空军计划一名无人机操控员一次同时操控四架无人机。

But drones have been more effective in northwest Pakistan than southern Afghanistan.

但是，无人机在巴基斯坦西北部比在阿富汗南部更为有效。

Yet their ability to track and kill individuals in remote locations ensures a bright future for the drones .

但无人机在追踪并杀死地处偏远地区的个人的能力保证了其光明的前途。

But drones weren’t at the heart of the Air Force’s strategy.

但无人驾驶飞机并不是空军战略的核心。