He did not invent jeans. But he is considered the first person to manufacture and sell this kind of clothing in large amounts.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

So if you want to invent, if you want to innovate, failure is part and parcel with that.

所以如果想要发明，想要创造，失败是不可或缺的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

There's been a lot of work done on these over the years, but in fact, it's pretty hard to invent a good hash function. So my advice to you is, if you want to use something was a hash, go to a library. Look up a good hash function.

已经做过了很多的尝试和努力,但是事实是，很难发明出一个好的哈希函数,所以我给你们的建议是,如果你们想使用哈希功能,到函数库中查找一个好的哈希函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Hawaii wants to re-invent itself as more than a "sun,sand and surf destination,"

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Why would you invent a hero, a national hero who's entirely Egyptian and has an Egyptian name?

你为什么创造一个英雄，一个埃及的国家英雄，他还有着埃及名字？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Of course, it might be easier for him to invent tricks.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

For one thing, he didn't invent a sort of image, he invented a story wrote and collaborated on the plot of Citizen Kane.

他并没有创造一种形象，他在《公民凯恩》的情节中,创造了一种角色的合作关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

But he spent his whole life continuing to study and invent.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

And so, maybe somebody in this room working with me will invent such a process.

因此，也许这个房间里和我一起工作的某个人,会发明出这样一种制作方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Mister Stoker did not invent the idea of a vampire.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

It didn't take Karl Marx to invent, or to discover that insight, that the rules of justice are simply the rules of the ruling class.

马克思并未发明，或发现这一独到的见解，意即正义的规则简言之,就是统治阶级的规则。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We needed something, we had to invent it." Over his long naval career, Walsh served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars, commanded a submarine and worked as a policy advisor and assistant to the secretary of the Navy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

This is a very interesting time because the Fed is continuing to invent.

这是一个很有意思的时期,因为美联储仍在继续创造。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So this is an 'in shoes', be careful where we are here, this is an 'in shoes in shoes' argument, at which point you might want to invent the sock.

所以这是一个不断换位思考式的过程,注意一下这里的措辞,这是一个换位再换位思考的过程,说明我们也要换来换去思考

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

We have to invent a process, a chemical extraction process that will make the production of magnesium cheaper so that we will have the opportunity to avail ourselves of energy-efficient materials.

我们必须发明出一种方法，一种化学提炼方法,能够使生产镁变得更便宜,那样我们才有机会,让我们自己用上高效能的材料。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Why would you invent a myth of origins in which your ancestors are slaves?

为什么要杜撰关于起源的神话,在这神话中，你的祖先却是奴隶？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He tells a story about something he calls "the state of nature," a term he did not invent, but with which his name will always and forever be associated, the idea of the state of nature.

他讲了一个故事，叫做,“自然状态“，这不是他所发明的词，但他的名字,总是会，也永远会和，“自然状态“联系在一起。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选