He wanted the school to invent a machine that would help keep track of inventory as well as speed up the checkout process.

店主希望校方发明一台有助于记录库存和加快结帐速度的机器。

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But abolition flies in the face of the intuition that if you create a drug or invent a machine, you have a claim on your work just as you would if you had built a house.

但是后来这个计划取消了。因为直觉告诉我们：如果你发明了一种药品或创造了一部机器，那么你对成果就有要求权；这就像你对你的房子有要求权一样。

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I wish to invent a useful machine some day.

我希望有一天能发明一样有用的机器。

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The precocious 8-year-old asked his dad to invent a machine to read minds.

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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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