Alexander Graham Bell believed one day machines would be invented to help deaf people hear and speak.

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The kinds of things that are going to be invented over the next several years is just to me outstanding, and particularly for somebody who's got skills in software.

在接下来的数十年里要被发明出的东西,真是令人望而生叹，尤其对于有软件才能的人来说。

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There's something to it, because things happened in this period that are revolutionary in the arts, in the thinking of people, philosophy is going to be invented in Miletus probably in this sixth century B.C.

它们确有相似之处,因为这个时期,在艺术上以及思想上,所发生的事件是有革命意义的,大约公元前六世纪,哲学在米利都诞生

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Actually, you would be wrong; the computer was invented in the nineteenth century by Babbage, but he didn't actually make one.

实际上，你们都错了;,电脑是在19世纪由巴贝奇发明的，不过他自己并没有真正的造出一台出来。

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And so, by and large, until this freon was invented by Midgley, there wasn't a good gas that had the right properties to be used for a refrigerant.

因此，总的说来，直到Midgley发明氟利昂，没有一个气体,能被很好的用作制冷剂。

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When democracy is invented it will have its moment and it will spread, and there will be numerous democracies but they will never be the majority of the poleis.

当民主的理念提出以后,它会不断的蔓延,会有很多民主制国家,应运而生,然而大多数的城邦却不是民主的

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They invented the paper machine so they could mass-produce paper-- it didn't have to be handmade anymore-- and they invented wood pulp paper so it didn't have to be made out of cloth anymore.

于是人们发明了造纸机从而可以大量生产纸-,而不再需要手工制作-,后来人们还发明了木浆纸,所以后来不再用布料来制纸。

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