The result was the high-level, easy to use, Common Business-Oriented Language, or COBOL for short.

其结果是高级的、易于使用的、面向商业的通用语言，简称 COBOL。

To deal with different underlying hardware, each computing architecture needed its own COBOL compiler.

为了处理不同的底层硬件，每个计算架构都需要自己的 COBOL 编译器。

But critically, these compilers could all accept the same COBOL source code, no matter what computer it was run on.

但至关重要的是，这些编译器都可以接受相同的 COBOL 源代码，无论它在哪台计算机上运行。

A 60-year-old programming language called COBOL is still in widespread use in many banks; according to Reuters, the average cobol programmer is between 45 and 55 years old.

一种有60年历史的编程语言COBOL仍在许多银行广泛使用，据路透社报道，COBOL程序员的平均年龄在45岁至55岁之间。

In 2017 a third of Japanese regional banks still used cobol, a programming language invented a decade before man landed on the moon.

2017年， 三分之一的日本地区银行仍在使用cobol，这是一种在人类登月前十年发明的编程语言。