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

因此，有必要一种仪器，既不打盹儿，也不睡觉。

Stop it! Stop inventing these wild tales!

“住口！别胡编这些鬼话！”

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

最早的其中之一是在15世纪被出来的湿度计，用来测试湿度。

So instead, we've invented all these proxies.

所以，我们各种替代工具。

We can invent computers capable of processing ten million calculations per second.

我们可以出每秒能进行一千万次计算的脑。

Well, when engineers invent… metallic glass, also known as amorphous metal.

当工程师玻璃合金的时候，也成为非晶金属的时候。

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

1974年们就玩魔方。

Can you believe Eddie Redmayne invented Beauty?

你能相信埃迪·雷德梅恩创造美丽吗？

Now, do you know who invented the mobile?

你知道是谁活动雕塑吗？

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

而且，节目里的情节和事件都是虚构的。

I mean, that's why uniforms were invented.

所以当初才有制服。

Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone overnight.

亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔也不只是一夜之间就话。

We can invent computers capable of processing ten million calculations per second. And why?

我们可以出每秒能进行一千万次计算的脑。为什么？

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

这是一位卖药片的商，这些药片被来止渴的。

The Spanish translator sometimes used italics to signal an invented word with no translation.

西文译者有时候会用斜体字来提醒读者这是一个没有翻译的新造字词。

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

" 广告实际上就是为销售麦片粥而的，" 希瑟·阿恩特·安德森说道。

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

事实上 这就是我的 这里以前没这么干过。

Britain invented the computer, television and the Internet.

英国计算机，视和互联网。

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

我们所知道的幸运饼干就是在旧金山的。

He practically invented the prank phone call.

" 整盅话" 差不多就是他的。