1. Each week a computer totals the average length of your calls; if it is under 14 minutes, you're in trouble.
    每周，电脑会累计你所接听电话的平均长度；如果不到14分钟，你就有麻烦了。

2. Broadly speaking, however, the superhighway refers to the union of today's broadcasting, cable, video, telephone, and computer and semiconductor industries into one large all-connected industry.
    但广义地说，信息高速公路是指由今天的广播、电视、录像、电话、电脑、半导体等产业组合而成的一个互相关联的大产业。

3. With scarcely a glance at the items, the clerk sweeps them across an aperture, where a special marking on each item is scanned by a low-powered laser beam inside the machine, connected to a remote computer.
    收款员几乎不看商品，只是把商品从机器上的孔眼处一扫而过，机器里的低能量激光对商品上的一个特殊标志进行扫描，这台扫描机与另一台电脑相联。

4. With computer-assisted check-out, keeping items of one kind together is no longer necessary.
    有了电脑辅助的收款方式，这一点已无关紧要。

5. What I am going to say is if you have a computer, now would be a good time to back up your files (档案)."
    可我要告诉你的是，如果你有台电脑，现在就是做好归挡的时候。"

6. The computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton, New Jersey, will have sun or rain on a day one month away.
    计算机无法推断出1个月以后的某一天，新泽西州的普林斯顿究竟是晴天还是雨天。

7. The IBM Personal Computer was widely copied.
    IBM的个人电脑被大规模地模仿。

8. This would make them instantly identifiable to a computer.
    这样电脑就可立刻辨认出每一种食品。

9. The zero tells the computer which is the left side of the symbol.
    这个0是让计算机辨认条形码的左右。

10. The computer will automatically keep track of the number of items and their price.
    电脑会自动记录物品的数目和价格。