He was deeply interested in science and natural history and his experiments with electricity and lightning led directly to the invention of the lightning rod.

他对科学和自然史非常感兴趣，且他对电和闪电的实验直接推动了避雷针的发明。

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An Australian designer has won this year's James Dyson Award with an invention that sounds more like magic than science - and the inventor owes his success to an unassuming little beetle.

一位澳大利亚设计师获得了本年度的杰姆斯·戴森奖，他的发明与其说是科学不如说是一个神话。而且这位发明者将他的成功归功于看起来不起眼的小甲虫。

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Such disagreements are commonplace in science. They are eventually settled by the collection of more data and the invention of more refined (or entirely new) theories.

观点不同在科学领域中屡见不鲜，但随着更多数据的收集或者更为精细理论的出现(有时甚至是全新理论)，争论最终可以得到解决。

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The real insurance industry, as I mentioned before, began in the 1600s with the invention of probability theory and with the invention of life tables for-- the invention of actuarial science; but, it grew slowly.

正如我刚才所提到的,真正的保险始于17世纪,这得益于概率论,寿命表以及,精算学的产生,但是,它的发展很缓慢

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Khare traveled from her California home to Phoenix last week for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, where her invention was honored as one of two winners of Young Scientist Awards.

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America has always been about discovery, and invention, and engineering, and science and evidence.

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After all, Asia lagged far behind the West in science and technology for centuries, and has since caught up to some degree only through imitation, not invention.

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