Question

一道GRE二空题求助，怎么翻译和理解？

New technologies often begin by what has gone before, and they change the world later. Think how long it took power-using companies to recognize that with electricity they did not need to cluster their machinery around the power source, as in the days of steam. Instead, power could be their processes. In that sense, many of today’s computer networks are still in the steam age. Their full potential remains unrealized.
uprooting transmitted to
Dismissing consolidated around
mimicking incorporated into

Answer 1

第一空填dismissing，第二空填transmitted to
新科技常常是通过放弃之前采用的做法开始的，不久之后它们就可以改变这个世界。想想那些使用动力的公司花了多久的时间才意识到，借助电，它们可以不用像蒸汽时代时那样将机器全都放在动力来源旁边。相反，动力可以传输到机器的运行过程中。从这种意义上来说，今天许多电脑网络仍然处于蒸汽时代。它们的潜能还没有全部挖掘。

追问

但是答案是mimicking 和transmitted，所以不理解

追答

那可能用mimick是因为下面网络同样可以通过类似从一般动力发展为电的方式开发全部潜能吧

Answer 2

选mimicking和transmitted to
这道题没什么明显对应