重重失败之后，我们这位沮丧至极的发明者赌气将一块树胶塞进了自己嘴里。

After mounting failures, the dejected inventor popped a piece into his mouth.

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不过呢W其实并不在罗马字母表内。在采用了罗马人的标准字母表中的23个字母后，我们英国人自己发明了这个W。

Now in fact W was not part of the Roman alphabet. We English invented W after adopting the 23 letters that came as a standard set from the Romans.

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正如当初在新泽西州的门洛帕克小镇上的那个夜晚，爱迪生和他的团队知道他们发明的灯泡会亮，但不知道它会亮多久，我们正凝视着我们自己的顿悟瞬间。

Just like that night in Menlo Park when Edison and his team knew their bulb would light but had no idea how long it would stay lit, we were staring at the glimmer of our own light bulb moments.

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They wouldn't have said that because it doesn't sound we want to think that we invented this here but it actually was a new invention in a way because the United States has a different philosophy which the United States has been committed since its beginning to federalism.

他们不会说,因为它听起来不像,这里我们希望大家把它想成我们自己的发明,但是事实上，它确实是一个新的发明,因为美国有一个不同的哲学,这个哲学是，美国力图从一开始就,使自己成为联邦制度国家。

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