A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
发明
Invention
Necessity... the mother of invention.
必要性…发明之母。
The book is man's best invention so far.
这本书是迄今为止人类最好的发明。
Without invention nothing is well-spaced.
没有发明，任何东西都是不协调的。
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
被抓住是发明之母。
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
女人的美德是男人最伟大的发明。
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.
当一个人一无所有时，他就会发明。它填补了一个空白。
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
永远不要退却:这是一个可怜的发明。
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
命运是懦夫和逆来顺受者的发明。
I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
我说我没有发明的能力。我也没有模仿的能力。
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
一项发明必须在它完成的世界里有意义，而不是在它开始的世界里。
Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.
人是创造出来的，通常不会接受否定的答案。
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
发明创造早已达到极限，我看不出有进一步发展的希望。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
事实上，死亡似乎是进化中一个相当晚的发明。在遇到一具真正的尸体之前，人类可以在进化过程中走很长的路。
I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.
我确实有过这样的时刻，但我没有对抗性。有时候你在球场上，你会发现自己很有对抗性。这完全是一个发现。
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
当乔纳斯回到家，告诉他的妻子他迟到了三天，因为他被鲸鱼吞了。
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.
如果你仔细想想，语言确实是一项非常了不起的发明。我脑子里有一个非常复杂，混乱，混乱的想法。我坐在这里发出咕哝的声音，希望在你的脑海中构建一个类似的混乱的，混乱的想法，与之类似。
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
人是充满希望和创造的动物，这两者都掩盖了事情是无法改变的这一观点。
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
所有的感知也是思考，所有的推理也是直觉，所有的观察也是发明。