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Do you know the history of the computer?
Let’s talk about it.
In 1662,a calculating machine was invented in France ,which could simplify the difficult calculation.200 years later, Charles Babbage invented an analytical machine .After being programmed, it could “think” logically and produce an answer quicker than a person. From 1936 on, this kind of machine grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower, and it became as large as a room.
As time went on, the machine became smaller and smaller, first as a PC and then as a laptop. The Internet appeared in the 1960s and the computer was connected by a network. Since the year of 1970, computers have been widely used in offices and we can share everything with others through the Internet.
Nowadays, the computer is widely used in every field in society, It is hard to imagine what the world would be like without the computer.

本文是关于电脑发展史的一篇文章，纯粹的翻译题，能体现出学生的英语基础情况。在翻译时一定要注意选词和表达，只要意思正确即可，还要注意文章的整体把握，谋篇布局，因为文章是根据时间顺序来写的，那么在写的过程中我们也要只要不要过于程序化，要变换句式。