In the mid-80s, Wall Street turned to the quants—brainy financial engineers—to invent new ways to boost profits.

80年代中期，华尔街求助计量经济学 ——聪明的金融工程师——以发明新的方法来增加利润。

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I stood still, trying to invent a plausible excuse.

我静静地站着，努力想编出一个听上去可信的借口。

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Today technology has progressed to the point where it is possible to invent new building materials to suit the type of structure desired.

今天的技术已经发展到可以发明新的建筑材料来适应所需要的结构类型。

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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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And so the opportunity and need to invent just like any other startup or entrepreneurial activity remains strong.

因此发明创造的机遇和需要就像,任何创立活动一样，非常重要。

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So if you want to invent, if you want to innovate, failure is part and parcel with that.

所以如果想要发明，想要创造，失败是不可或缺的。

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They spend too much time and money trying to invent products and not enough time trying to invent ways to wow customers.

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For the next 45 minutes, Haynes, First Officer Bill Records, engineer Dudley Dvorak and instructor Dennis Fitch would need all their strength and good ideas to re-invent how to fly the DC-10.

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