They continued to use the old methods of attack that had worked before the minie ball was invented.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

The United Kingdom was the prominent first case even though they had invented the gold standard hundreds of years earlier.

英国是著名的第一个放弃金本位的国家,即使它在几百年前,发明了金本位制度。

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What he invented was an insurance policy that had a cash value and that's another-- it's a cash value on the insurance policy.

他创造了一种保单,这种保单具有现金价值,指带有储蓄性质的保单所具有的价值

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Kevlar might not have been invented had Stephanie Kwolek been able to seek a career in medicine.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Now in the middle years of the seventeenth century during the English revolution that saw the execution of the king and saw the establishment of a non-monarchic republican government, Milton had practically invented the formal language, the literary language, of insubordination.

7世纪中期,英国革命期间，国王被处决,一个非君主制的共和国政府建立了起来，弥尔顿实际上创造出了一套正式词汇，一套用来表述“反抗“的文学词汇。

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The phonograph and radio had been invented in the late eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

When someone invented the airplane, before you knew it every country had an airplane because there was a best practice, there was a best technology and it was not unique to any one country.

有人发明了飞机,不知不觉,每个国家都有飞机了,因为这些最佳的设计,这些最好的技术,并不是一个国家所独有的

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The medicine to cure her had not been invented yet.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

A new kind of bullet had been invented.

VOA: special.2009.12.03