At first, those computer scientists who attempted to construct an automatic translation machine made this mistake.

起初，那些试图构建自动翻译机的计算机科学家犯了这个错误。

But this is no easy task, and the sheer number of languages in the world, as well as the increasing interaction between the people who speak them, will only continue to spur greater advances in automatic translation.

仍然比用目前可用的计算机程序的效果更好，但这也绝非易事，世界上语言的绝对数量，和其使用者间的相互作用。