I'm child of the Columbia Space Shuttle, and I need to know all the electronic gimmicks invented yesterday that are already primitive cousins to those developed today from eight to five P.M.in Japan.

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I think the idea of a stock must have been invented independently at many times in history.

我认为股票这个概念,在历史上被反复提出过多次

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Well, so I mean, he is... when he invented all the theory about the space time and all this,

嗯，他呢……他发明所有这些空间时间理论的时候，

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Although, I said, insurance was effectively discovered or invented in the 1600s, it has been slow to grow because they didn't have the well-defined-- all of the inventions yet.

尽管我说过，保险实际上,是在17世纪的时候被发现或者发明的，但它的发展非常缓慢,因为人们无法确切定义-,这种被发明出的东西。

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I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.

我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了

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The institution of insurance is something that really came in--it's one of the earliest-- I consider it a division of finance-- really came in the 1600s when probability theory was invented.

保险机构的出现,我认为这是金融业中,最早的分支之一,大约在17世纪,概率论刚刚诞生

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but I think it's motivational, and so I said, are you sure that J.R. Hicks invented the term "forward rate"?

但我觉得这很有趣,我问他,你能肯定,J·R·希克斯是"远期利率"的提出者吗

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