What excuse did he invent this time?

他这次编了什么借口？

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In the next seven years, between nineteen-twenty-nine and nineteen-thirty-six, he seemed to re-invent the novel with every book he wrote.

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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。

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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。

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He is unlikely to prod and humiliate employees the way Jobs did, but unfortunately, there is no evidence he will invent and disrupt the way that Jobs did.

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He didn't invent rock 'n' roll, but he helped, mingling in his music black rhythm- -and-blues, white country, gospel, everything.

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He liked to invent things and was granted some 90 patents.

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