这是一个失败的发明,因为人们还没靠近挠痒痒的机器,就已经被它的模样逗笑。
This was a failure because people could not go near the tickle machine without convulsing in laughter.
贾德森试图出售他的发明,但没有人想要它,因为它不太好用。
Judson tried to sell his invention but no one wanted it because it did not work very well.
东亚,如果发明一种改进的水稻品种,数百英里的农民都可以栽种它,因为土地和气候是基本一样的。
In east Asia, if you invent an improved rice variety, every farmer for hundreds of miles around can use it because the land and climate are much the same.
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。
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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