His 1939 patent for color TV receiver circuitry was extended until 1971 because for most of the patent 's normal life there was no colour TV to receive and thus no hope of reward for the invention.

他于1939年获准的彩电接收机线路的专利一直延续到1971年，因为在当时这项专利期内没有彩色电视节目可以接收，因此专利无望被采用。

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All I do is eat and sleep. Eat and sleep. Eat and sleep. There must be more to a cat 's life than that. But I hope not.

我所做的一切就是吃饭睡觉。吃饭睡觉。吃饭睡觉。当然猫地一生中一定还有其他东西，但我希望没有。

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And if there "s one thing that we can take from today" s dialogue, I hope that it is a commitment to continue this dialogue going forward.

如果能从今天的对话中得到一点启示的话，我希望那就是致力于今后继续进行这种对话。

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Back then,there was much hope that humans would return soon and make a home on Earth's only natural satellite.

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There's a list on your handout, so I hope everyone got a copy of the handout.

你们的讲义上有一个列表，我希望每个人都拿到了讲义。

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Really, I hope that there's a lot of food at the wedding.

真的，我希望婚礼上能有许多吃的。

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And so, it's the issue of do we adhere to the patient's wishes if there's hope of prolonging life or preserving health?

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Andrew Hunter what's your answer to that, Laurence McKeown is really saying you've got to make a fresh beginning, you've got to put the past behind, you, there's no other, there's no other way forward, there's no hope otherwise?

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Work is still early enough that there's a long way to go before such implants are part of any treatments, but there's hope that future chip iterations could help fix inner ear maladies, not just report on them.

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