They do the big step of inventing vowels so that now you don't have to remember anything.

他们在发明元音方面迈出重大一步,所以现在你不必去费力记忆

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so that if you come up with some amazing invention, you have to be able to tell all the people about it.

这样如果你要是有了什么了不起的发明，你要能够把它告诉别人。

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You really need that because if you have only one copy of something, you don't have a backup; so, you can store the one copy separately.

你真的很需要这项发明,因为要是你只有一份的话，你就没有备份;,这样的话，你就可以将副本单独留存。

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In our business, you got to be inventing new things because software doesn't wear out, it doesn't break, or at least if it breaks it was broken when you finished it, it doesn't break over time the way physical goods do.

在我们行业，你需要不断发明新事物,因为软件并不会磨损，不会坏，或者至少如果坏了,也是在你运行完之后，它并不像物理上的东西会随着时间磨损。

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The king was very impressed with the game and said, "How can I reward you?" And the chess player said, " "No, it' OK really."

国王很喜欢这个游戏并说，“我要如何奖赏你？“，象棋发明者说，“不必，真得不用奖赏“

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If you invented it, we'd call it whatever your name is, but this is the guy who invented it, so it's called a Newton, usually denoted by a capital N.

如果是你发明的,我们就用你的名字当单位,但这个单位是他发明的,所以叫它牛顿,一般用大写字母 N 表示

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It's like we have laws of thermodynamics that underlie the use of engines, but you can't just go from the laws of thermodynamics to an automobile; there are a million steps along the way.

这就好比热力学定律,为引擎的使用打下了理论基础,但你不能从热力学定律一步跨越到发明汽车,这中间还要经历成千上万的步骤

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