And yet from a computational standpoint, our automaton still seemed like a self-propelled scooter compared with the Rolls-Royce of computers on which we had set our sights: the biomolecular Turing machine.

• 然而从计算的观点来看，我们的自动机就像人力推进的滑板车一样，而我们的目标，是建造劳斯莱斯级的生物分子涂林机器。