1·While at Bell Laboratories, Shannon developed information theory, but shunned the resulting acclaim.
在贝尔实验室的时候，香农发展了信息理论，但避开了随之而来的赞美。
2·Shannon showed that noise sets a limit on the rate at which information can pass along communication channels while remaining error-free.
香农指出，噪声限制了信息在保持无差错的情况下沿通信信道传递的速度。
3·Shannon showed how to calculate this limit, opening the way to the design of compression methods that cram maximum information into the minimum space.
香农展示了如何计算这个限度，这为设计压缩方法将最多的信息填入最小的空间开辟了道路。
4·Having identified this fundamental unit, Shannon set about defining otherwise vague ideas about information and how to transmit it from place to place.
确定了这个基本单位后，香农开始定义关于信息及如何将信息从一处传到另一处的模糊概念。
5·It also highlighted the astonishing power of the techniques developed by American communications engineer Claude Shannon, who had died just a year earlier.
它还强调了一年前刚去世的美国通信工程师克劳德·香农开发的技术的惊人力量。