I guess there are scientists right now trying to do that, and I hope they'll succeed because the world would be a much cleaner place, wouldn't it? I think it will be great if they invent something so that we only have to sleep for one or two hours every day.

我想有科学家正在尝试这样做，我希望他们能成功，这样世界会变得更干净，不是吗？如果他们发明一种东西，让我们每天只睡一两个小时，那就太好了。

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When people come to you with a problem and you have to figure out the right thing to do, you don't (usually) have to invent anything.

当人们要你传道解惑时你就得找到正确的方法，你不必创造什么(基本上如此)。

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Since he or she has to invent an answer, a lie-teller will often spend more time searching for the right word in the course of telling a story.

为了编造一个答案，说谎者需要用更多的时间选择合适的字眼。

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And indeed, as we shall see, well, the tragic view of life, which the Greeks invent and which characterizes their culture, is there right at the beginning in the Iliad and the Odyssey.

确实,我们可以看到,悲剧人生观,在伊利亚特和奥德赛的一开始就有所体现,这是希腊人首先提出的,体现了他们的文化性格

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It acknowledges that you don't always win, that when things don't turn out well, you try a different approach and then another until you find a solution, until you reach a new continent, until you write the right constitution, until you invent the right machine.

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