自动钢琴

《自动钢琴》中由于高度的机械化与自动化，大多数人们无法实践自由意志，能够实践自由意志的人们也看不到希望，似乎人类的命运早已被预设了。

In Player Piano , because of mechanization and automation , few people can exercise their free will and those who have exercised their free will see no hope . It seems that the fate of human beings has been predestined .

但是，他的首部长篇小说《自动钢琴》由于一直被认为是一部科幻小说，因此长期没有受到国内学界的重视，不仅相关的研究文章寥寥无几，而且至今没有中译本面世。

However , his first novel Player Piano did not capture much scholarly attention , for scholars usually viewed it as a popular work of science fiction . Till now , there have been few research papers on this novel , and it still has not been translated into Chinese .

在思特里克兰德和尼柯尔斯坐的酒吧间里摆着一架自动钢琴，机械地演奏着喧噪聒耳的舞曲。

In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music .

艾肯的继电器机器具有这个特性，只是将卡片换成了类似自动钢琴用的纸卷。

The Aiken relay machine enjoyed the same feature , although cards had been replaced by a sort of pianola roll .

在中国起价约为14.7万美元的Spirio，起源可追溯至上世纪初全美几乎一户一台的那一代自动钢琴。

Spirio , which starts at about $ 147000 in China , traces its roots to a generation of player pianos that filled homes across America in the early 1900s , the golden age of pianos .