artifact中等

Visit any antiques store and you’ll encounter artifacts from the past: photographs, letters, a brochure detailing the Sinclair dinosaur exhibit from the 1964-1965 World’s Fair, the ephemera of history.

走进任何一家古董店，你都会遇到来自过去的物品：照片、信件、一本详细介绍1964—1965年世界博览会上辛克莱恐龙展的小册子——这些都是历史的短暂遗留物。

Have you pondered the life cycle of intangible formats, digital information, given that those who produce these artifacts seldom make provision for their long-term preservation?

考虑到制作这些产物的人很少为其长期保存做准备，你是否思考过无形格式——数字信息——的生命周期？

For millennia, we’ve known what we’ve known due to artifacts that have survived, often despite their original creators’ neglect.

几千年来，我们之所以知道我们所知道的，是因为那些留存下来的物品，而它们往往是在原创者疏于保管的情况下留存下来的。

Thus we play an integral role in identifying, preserving, and providing accessibility to digital artifacts so that, while future researchers may find the digital realm a challenging place to ply their trade, they won’t find it an impossible one.

因此，我们在识别、保存数字资料并提供获取途径方面发挥着不可或缺的作用，这样，尽管未来的研究人员可能会发现数字领域是一个充满挑战的工作场所，但他们不会觉得那是一个无法开展工作的地方。

The author mentions the artifacts from the past to ____

作者提到过去的物品是为了____

Compared with digital objects, tangible artifacts ____

与数字对象相比，有形物品____