At the time of creation, no attempts were made at intentional preservation, yet analog materials have a chance of surviving and serving as the historical record that biographers, historians, and novelists rely on.
在创作之时，并未有人刻意尝试去保存它们，但模拟材料仍有机会留存下来，并作为传记作家、历史学家和小说家所依赖的历史记录。
Digital information requires a great deal more care than analog.
数字信息比模拟信息需要更多的细心呵护。
Without constant migration of digital assets, a nightmare about the foreseeable future is what keeps historians up at night: a historical record that abruptly stops when digital replaces analog.
如果没有持续不断地迁移数字资产，历史学家们就会被一个关于未来的噩梦困扰：当数字技术取代模拟技术时，历史记录会突然中断。
the inconvenience of storing information on analog devices.
在模拟设备上存储信息的不便。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。