许多现代发明便利了家务劳动。

Modern inventions facilitate housework.

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电视是一个现代发明。

Television is a modern invention.

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不是每个人都想去体验没有像智能手机和电子书等现代发明的生活。

Not everyone wants to go and experience life without modern inventions like smartphones and e-books.

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Machiavelli is the founder, the discoverer, the inventor of the modern state.

马奇亚维利是创始人，发明人，他发明了现代国家。

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