Words like "acid", "gravity", "electricity" and "pendulum" had to be invented just to stop their meetings turning into an endless game of charades.

像“酸”，“重力”，“电”和“钟摆”这些词不得不被发明出来，只是为了防止他们的会议变成一场无止尽的字谜游戏。

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Secondly, the scientists have predicted that a machine will be invented to "read" the minds of animals.

其次，科学家们预测将会发明一种机器来“读懂”动物的思想。

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This new role comes with a huge set of challenges, and needs largely to be invented.

这个新角色伴随着一系列巨大的挑战，且很大程度上需要把它创造出来。

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Alexander Graham Bell believed one day machines would be invented to help deaf people hear and speak.

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The kinds of things that are going to be invented over the next several years is just to me outstanding, and particularly for somebody who's got skills in software.

在接下来的数十年里要被发明出的东西,真是令人望而生叹，尤其对于有软件才能的人来说。

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There's something to it, because things happened in this period that are revolutionary in the arts, in the thinking of people, philosophy is going to be invented in Miletus probably in this sixth century B.C.

它们确有相似之处,因为这个时期,在艺术上以及思想上,所发生的事件是有革命意义的,大约公元前六世纪,哲学在米利都诞生

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But at the dawn of the 20th century, this innovation had yet to be invented.

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Rip-stop nylon needed to be invented before I could fly a powered-parachute ultralight aircraft.

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Officials then ran a design competition to see if a better bus could be invented.

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