Oftentimes, inventions that seem, in the abstract, to be good ideas may be impossible because something that you have to do to make it actually come into practice is too expensive and so it's not economic to produce the invention.

通常在理论上,创新固然不错,但却很难实现,因为把创意变成现实,花费会相当的昂贵,实现这样的创意非常不合算

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but I think it's, you know, a good practice, especially to be learned here in the United States, too.

但是我觉得这样，是很好的练习，特别是在美国做生意也有学问。

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