这项运动是有芬兰的滑雪者为了在没有雪的夏天也能训练而想出的主意。

The sport was conceived by Finnish cross-country skiers looking for a way to train during the snowless summer months.

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我想出了这个愚蠢而恼人的主意。

I came up with this dumb idea.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

他想出了一个把旧发电站改造为艺术中心的主意。

He conceived the idea of transforming the old power station into an arts centre.

《牛津词典》

Some time around this period of time,in early Christianity, somebody got the big idea, "Hey,let's cut up the scroll into pages, and sew the pages together. And then,put it all in a book.

大概在这段时期，在早期的基督教里，有人想出了一个好主意，即把书卷断成张页，并用线一张张连起来使之成书。

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when I was in law school... I'm always coming up with the ideas, other people think they're crazy.

我在上法学院的时候……我总会想出一些别人认为很疯狂的主意。

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This is 1889, under the government of Otto von Bismarck-- although, he has nothing to do with this, it was other people--economists in Germany that invented this idea.

889年时，当时俾斯麦执政德国-,他和这事儿没多大关系，这是由德国的经济学家,想出了这个主意。

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