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。)
Scientists can't invent new minutes.(科学家也发明不出新的分钟。)
So they need to invent a new term.(所以,他们需要创造一个新的术语。)
We did't invent a firewall that is secure against ordinary humans yet, let alone super intelligent machines.(我们还没有发明一个能抵御普通人的防火墙,更不用说超级智能机器了。)
But Hollywood didn't invent the curse concept.(但是好莱坞并没有创造诅咒这个概念。)
We are not to invent reasons for ignoring the poor.(我们不应该去编造忽视穷人的理由。)
Galileo did not invent the telescope, but on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he quickly built his own device from an organ pipe and spectacle lenses.(伽利略并没有发明望远镜,但在1609年听到有人制造了这种光学仪器后,他很快用管风琴管和眼镜镜片制造了自己的望远镜。)
We can invent computers capable of processing ten million calculations per second.(我们可以发明每秒能处理一千万次计算的计算机。)
Instead of trying to refine old formulas, they invent new ones.(他们不是试图改进旧的公式,而是发明新的公式。)
So they proceeded to invent the verge-and-foliot escapement.(所以他们着手发明了立轴横杆式擒纵机构。)