As speech-recognition algorithms improve, the spoken word could become the main interface to the network. This will be especially valuable with mobile devices, because it overcomes the limitations of a fiddly keypad and a screen-tapping stylus

随着语音识别法的改进,口语将变成网络的主要界面,语音识别能力与移动设备结合在一起特别能体现其价值,因为它克服了需要灵巧手指输入的键盘和屏幕输入笔的限制

Changing a fuse is one of those fiddly jobs I hate.

我最不愿意干换保险丝这类活儿了.

This tin-opener is awfully fiddly .

这把罐头刀很不好使.

||1:Then there are the industries it has upended.||2:Books came first.||3:Amazon has changed publishing twice—first by making any book in the world quickly available and then by making e-books mainstream.||4:Before Amazon launched the Kindle in 2007, e-readers were fiddly gadgets that few people used.||5:The Kindle was easy to use, worked anywhere and allowed instant delivery straight to the device (rather than via a PC).||6:Amazon also pioneered a new model for cloud computing.||7:In 2006 it began renting out computer capacity by the hour.||8:The option to rent rather than buy computing power greatly reduced the cost and complexity of launching a new company.||9:Amazon’s cloud services have since been used by startups including Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, Spotify and Airbnb, and have spawned a whole new industry.

||1:此外，亚马逊还颠覆了许多行业，其中图书首当其冲。||2:亚马逊已经改变了两次出版行业。||3:一次是通过网络书店方便人们购书，第二次则是通过电子书方便人们随时阅读。||4:在2007，亚马逊推出Kindle之前，电子书只是一种小众设备。||5:因为Kindle非常易用，可以随时随地使用，而且可以在不借助PC的情况下，能够立即将图书下载到设备中。||6:亚马逊还推出了一种全新的云计算方法。||7:在2006年便开始按照时间出租计算资源。||8:这种以租代购的方式大大降低了公司的创业成本及复杂度。||9:亚马逊的云端服务还被广泛的应用于像Netflix，Instagram，Pinterest, Spotify 和Airbnb这样的新创公司，甚至还催生出了一些全新的产业。

||1:However much the military brass may hype up the threat, states are in fact highly unlikely to use cyber-weapons against each other, Mr Rid argues.||2:They are expensive to acquire, unreliable and fiddly .||3:That does not mean they are useless.||4:Malicious code, “malware”, can do shocking damage, destroying machines, starting fires, spewing pollution or jamming communications.||5:Cleverer weapons could be more dangerous still, such as malicious code that adapts to its environment, rewriting itself to evade pursuers.||6:They will be used, but as part of sabotage or terrorism rather than all-out war, he argues.

||1:但是，瑞德称，不论军方要员如何炒作网络威胁，各国政府实际上几乎不可能使用网络武器互相攻击。||2:网络武器成本高，可靠性低，且因太过精细而难以操作。||3:这并不意味着网络武器就毫无用处。||4:恶意编码，恶意软件的破坏力惊人，它们能够摧毁机器，点燃火灾，喷出污染物，还能阻塞通信。||5:更智能的网络武器还会更危险，比如能适应环境的恶意编码，能够通过自动重新编写来避过追踪者。||6:他表示，这些武器自有用处，但是是用在破坏行动和恐怖行动上，而不是用在全面战争上。

||1:The war on doorknobs is part of a broader campaign to make buildings more accessible to the elderly and disabled, many of whom find levered doorhandles easier to operate than fiddly knobs.||2:Vancouver’s code adds private homes to rules already in place in most of Canada for large buildings, stipulating wider entry doors, lower thresholds and lever-operated taps in bathrooms and kitchens.

||1:在许多老残人士看来，杠杆式的门把手比小破旋钮好用得多；为了方便他们出入各式建筑物，一场大战已经打响，而门把手之仗正是其中一役。||2:温哥华法令在加拿大广义上的大型建筑物条例中添加了私人住宅一条，对宽门厅的门、低门槛、杠杆操作的厨浴水龙头都作出了规定。

||1:This change was intended to deal with sham colleges that were in effect offering two-year work visas.||2:But it seems to have put off serious students too.||3:Nick Hillman of the Higher Education Policy Institute says the government has sent unclear messages about the sort of immigration it wants to restrict.||4:An emphasis on holding down net immigration deters young Indians and Pakistanis in particular.||5:Australia and America, which have more relaxed entry criteria for students, are becoming more favoured destinations.||6:Colin Riordan, Cardiff University’s vice-chancellor, adds that Britain’s student-visa regime has become more onerous and fiddly overall.

||1:这样的改变是为了应对那些所谓提供两年工作签的假冒院校。||2:但是这样的做法似乎也影响到了真正求学的学生。||3:来自高等教育政策研究所的尼克·希尔曼表示，政府的做法向大众传递了一个限制留学移民的模糊信息。||4:英国着重于控制移民的政策对来自印度和巴基斯坦学生的影响最为严重。||5:同时，澳大利亚和美国，因其对学生宽松的准入标准而变得倍受青睐。||6:卡蒂夫大学副校长克林·里奥丹补充道，英国的学生签证制度变得越来越严格复杂。

Such fiddly holding chains can cause problems if the family is unwilling or unable to fund new investments or accept the alternative of losing control.

如果家族不愿意或者无能力去建立新的投资项目或者接受失去控制权的选择，这样繁琐的控股程序会引来麻烦。

Poland wants fiddly changes that might make it easier to keep burning coal and not be bankrupted by the ETS.

波兰需要进行一些高技术的变革，来让用煤变得更为容易，并不至于被气候变化方案彻底搞垮。

At key moments, though, this apparently fiddly hierarchy can be decisive.

不过在关键时刻，这个复杂的组织架构会是决定性因素。

Outside the state firms, the fiddly conglomerate is the favoured form of organisation.

除了国有公司，需要灵巧操作的企业集团成了较受青睐的企业组织形式。

But swift progress is difficult. Many topics are fiddly and technical, so rule-making takes time.

但是要迅速执行各项措施也是困难的，因为许多议题涉及细节和专业性知识，因此制定规则需要时间。

But that is the way democracies work. The trick is to bind the fiddly immediate business of reform to a bolder vision.

但这就是社会民主进步的方式——将那些需要如履薄冰进行的改革与一个大胆的愿景结合起来。

As for the Polish business lobby, profits in Russia loom larger than fiddly questions about history and justice.

对于波兰商业游说者来说，在俄罗斯获取利润要比在历史和司法上的不好处理的争论重要得多。

That programme was about “weaponization” : the fiddly business of making a device that can set off a chain reaction in nuclear fuel.

该计划致力于武器化：虽然制造在核原料中引发链式反应的设备是一件高精细度的工作。

Closing international organisations down is more difficult, involving fiddly decisions on pensions and redundancies.

关闭国际组织比设立艰难数倍，收拾残局意味着养老金和人员安置的繁琐杂务。

10 simple things will be held in more opaque loan books and fiddly things held at market prices.

简单的资产作为较不透明的贷款入账，而复杂的资产以市价计量。

Explicit government ownership would be an improvement over the onerous, fiddly and capricious intervention of today.

明确政府所有权，将是对目前繁重、毫无目的和反复无常的政府干预的改进。

One way of identifying a substance without resorting to fiddly chemical methods is to determine its density.

其中一种不用高精度的化学方法验证物质的办法就是确定它的密度。

The full keyboard is very handy for annotating books and for search but the keys themselves are fiddly and typing is slow.

全键盘对于作笔记和搜过来说很方便，但是按键本身太过生硬，输入速度很慢。

Disadvantages: Expensive; can be fiddly , since you need to adjust the water level until it’s right for you.

缺点：贵；因为你需要调整水量来调整舒适度，所以可能会比较不便

Mobile phones: Typing text into a mobile phone is fiddly enough in English. How do handsets and their users manage in other languages?

手机：在手机里打一段英文文字需要不停地拨动手指。其他国家的手机用户是什么样的情况呢？

Although many have simplified since 1990, most are still fiddly , with intricate chains of holding companies and subsidiaries.

虽然从1990年开始，很多集团简化了，大多却依旧繁杂，他们有错综复杂的连锁控股公司和子公司。

His filing cabinets are packed with the fiddly paper prototypes of nascent games, his mantelpiece stuffed with awards.

他的档案柜中摞满了开发初期的一丝不苟的游戏原型稿，他的壁炉前塞满了各种奖杯。

For the time being, he says, getting VoIP to work on a mobile handset would be too fiddly for most people.

他还说到：暂时来看，让网络语音技术在移动电话上有所应用对于大多数人来说还是比较繁琐的。

One way to identify a substance without resorting to fiddly chemical methods is to determine its density.

要分辨一种物质，可以用密度测量法。而无须借助费事繁琐的化学分析法。

Sign up and it assumes you want to share as much data as possible; if not, you have to change the settings, which can be a fiddly business.

一注册就假定你愿意尽可能多地共享信息。如果不愿意分享，你可以修改设置，不过这一过程却是繁琐的。

Getting them to behave in huge circular accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider is fiddly .

在像大型强子对撞机之类的巨大圆形加速器中使它们循规蹈矩是需要技巧的。

The end result does look sensible: simple things will be held in more opaque loan books and fiddly things held at market prices.

最后的结果看起来依然很合情理：简单的资产作为较不透明的贷款入账，而复杂的资产以市价计量。

The latest phone interfaces are as tempting to us as a morsel of cheese to a mouse, but they remain infuriatingly fiddly .

最新的手机界面（译者：猜测是指iphone的触摸屏）对我们来说是诱人的，如同一小口奶酪之于老鼠。但它们仍然是那么令人气愤地难用。