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。

Another method is statistical machine translation, which analyzes a database of books, articles, and documents that have already been translated by humans.

统计翻译法，这个方法是取分析那些已经被前人翻译过的书籍、文章和文件的数据库。

Yet as Johnson's experiment shows, for most workaday purposes machine translation (MT) has got a lot better in the past five years or so.

然而，正如 Johnson 的实验所表明的那样，对于大多数日常用途而言，机器翻译 (MT) 在过去五年左右的时间里已经变得更好了。