It was necessary, therefore, to invent instruments that neither slumbered nor slept.

因此，有必要发明一种仪器，既不打盹儿，也不睡觉。

Stop it! Stop inventing these wild tales!

“！别胡编这些鬼话了！”

An' they haven't invented a spell our Hermione can' do, said Hagrid proudly, making Hermione go a brilliant shade of magenta.

咱们赫敏不会使魔咒，他们还没发明出来呢！海格自豪地说，赫敏羞得脸上红艳艳。

" Advertising was practically invented to sell cereal, " says Heather Arndt Anderson.

" 广告实际上就是为了销售麦片粥而发明，" 希瑟·阿恩特·安德森说道。

One of the first, invented in the fifteenth century, was a hygrometer, which measured humidity.

最早其中之一是在15世纪被发明出来湿度计，用来测试湿度。

That's why they invented the mail system and carbon paper and onion skin copies.

反正现在有邮政系统，还有复写纸和拷贝纸。

Some folks have been trying to solve this puzzle since it was invented in 1974.

1974年开始人们就开始玩魔方。

Britain invented the computer, television and the Internet.

英国发明了计算机，电视和互联。

There is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized human.

人生苦短，不足以自己创造成为一个文明人所需知道一切知识。

And the plots and the events that take place are also invented.

而且，节目里情节和事件都是虚。

Modern biographers do not invent such stories.

现代传记作家并不编造这样故事。

This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst.

这是一位卖药片商人，这些药片被发明来止渴。

In fact I invented it. Nobody else has ever even done it here before.

事实上 这就是我发明 这里以前没人这么干过。

The fortune cookie as we know, it was invented right here in San Francisco.

我们所知道幸运饼干就是在旧金山发明。

He practically invented the prank phone call.

" 整盅电话" 差不多就是他发明。

I'm going to invent a flying bike!

我打算发明一辆会飞自行车！

Packages proudly proclaiming 'no artificial flavors' are trying to appeal to the common feeling that substances from Mother Nature are inherently safer and better than ones invented and produced by people.

非人工，并想要以此来吸引大众，使得大众认为来自大自然天生就比人工更好更健康。

Greater too than we can describe; for language, which was invented to convey the meanings of this world cannot readily be fitted to the uses of another.

这种美感和静谧是我们无法描述，因为我们发明语言是用来描述这个世界含义，不能随便拿来去描述另一个世界。

That material was invented in the 1950s, and it wasn't until the athleisure megatrend 50 years later that it was truly everywhere on this planet.

这种材料是在 20 世纪 50 年代发明，直到 50 年后 运动休闲风开始时兴，这种材料才开始流行起来。

Had this test been invented, there are hundreds of men now walking the earth who would long ago have paid the penalty of their crimes.

假如这个试验方法能早些发现，那么，现在世界上数以百计逍遥法外罪人早就受到法律制裁了。