A patent forbids others from copying an invention and makes the invention valuable in the world of business.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

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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It is very interesting to me because it's a discrete invention that happened in a point of time in response to information technology.

我觉得很有意思,因为它由许多组成部分构成,这些部分组合在了一起,而且都和信息技术有关。

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And, because we are a history museum, they fit directly into our interest in things relating to industry and things relating to invention and innovation."

VOA: special.2011.06.21

One of the great discoveries in television and movies was the invention of the laugh track.

电视界和电影界一个很有趣的发现就是,发明了笑声音轨。

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The United States first recognized the invention of an automobile seat belt in eighteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

So, the polis will see the invention of freedom in this way, and oddly enough, it is accompanied by the growth of slavery at the same time.

因此城邦见证了自由的兴起,而且很有趣的是,这同时也伴随着奴隶制的不断发展

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In eighteen seventy-three, Strauss and Davis received a patent to officially own this invention.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Like in any other invention, nobody knows what will work and abstract theory doesn't guide you completely.

正如其他的创新一样,没有人知道哪些是可行的,有时候理论完全无法指导实践

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Another invention earned Robert Fulton a special place in aviation history.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

I think it was the invention of probability theory that really started it and that's why I think theory is very important in finance.

我认为是概率论的诞生,真正促生了保险业,那也是为什么,我认为理论对于金融来说非常重要

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The Lemelson Foundation has established a center to study invention and innovation at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and conducts national programs and competitions for college-age inventors.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

It is as close as you could find in science to a solitary invention.

就像是一个科学发明的专利享有者。

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There is no way to talk about what he's talking about in the kinds of settlements that existed before the invention of the polis, and that I think is worth mentioning.

因为他是无法,在城邦出现前谈论,这种存在形式的居住地的,我认为这一点很值得注意

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That's why we need invention and theory in finance to minimize that.

因此我们需要新的金融发明和理论,来将危机最小化。

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The real insurance industry, as I mentioned before, began in the 1600s with the invention of probability theory and with the invention of life tables for-- the invention of actuarial science; but, it grew slowly.

正如我刚才所提到的,真正的保险始于17世纪,这得益于概率论,寿命表以及,精算学的产生,但是,它的发展很缓慢

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I hope that you'll have that in the back of your head when we get to the story of Athens and the invention of democracy, because it was off the wall from the perspective of Greek tradition.

我希望,当我们讲到雅典神话,以及民主制的诞生时,你们还记得这点,因为从希腊人的传统观点来看,这是很不寻常的

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