Extending patents to life raises the important legal question of whether engineered genes, cells, tissues, organs and whole organisms, are truly human inventions or merely discoveries of nature that have been skillfully modified.

将专利权扩展到生命范畴触及到了一个重要的法律问题:人工基因、细胞、组织、器官和整个生物到底是真正的人类发明呢，还是经过巧妙改造的自然界的新发现呢?

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Today we still borrow from Latin and Greek to name new inventions , like video, television, synthesizer and cyberspace

今天我们仍借用拉丁语和希腊语的一些词给新发明命名，如“录像”，“电视”，“合成剂”，“信息空间”。

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Publishing as it is known today depends on a series of three major inventions --writing, paper, and printing and one crucial social development--the spread of literacy.

今天意义上的出版依赖于三种主要发明:文字，纸和印刷，及一种重要社会进步:文化水平的普及。

属类：行业术语-传媒-印刷媒体

Recently, I read an article talking exuberantly about the four great inventions of ancient China, as if the nation was still resting on its laurels

近日，笔者还在报纸上看到一篇躺在中国古老文明上打呼噜的文章，大谈我国的四大发明。

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At this very moment there are probably important inventions lying fallow.

就在目前这个时刻，说不定还有一些重要的创造发明尚未发挥作用。

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Radar and other inventions were the work of "boffins"

雷达以及其它种种发明都是科学工作者们的成果。

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Examples include but are not limited to advance information about earnings, dividends, securities offerings, acquisitions, major contract awards, major discoveries or inventions .

例子包括但并不局限于下列信息如营收、红利、证券出售、申购、主要合约裁定、重要发现或发明。

属类：应用文体-企业管理-公司沟通政策

The Roman inventions of concrete and mortar permitted the development of the arch into one of the basic construction forms and gave rise to a number of variations in the facing used for walls

罗马人发明混凝土和砂浆，让拱发展为基本建筑形式之一，并使墙上所用的饰面产生若干变异

属类：行业术语-艺术-工艺

There wasn’t any pauper stranger, nor any twenty-dollar contribution, nor any accompanying benediction and compliment-these are all inventions [General buzz and hum of astonishment and delight]

没有外乡穷叫花子，没有那二十块钱的施舍，也没有为此表达谢意和捧场的话---这一切都是编出来的(全场一片惊讶和快意的嗡嗡声)。

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That’s a good idea. Thank you, Han Mei. I’ve learnt a lot about old Chinese inventions today.

妙极了。谢谢你，韩梅。今天我了解了不少有关中国古代发明的知识。

属类：学习英语-教材英语-初三

Southern countries claim that what northern companies call "inventions " are really the pirating of their local genetic resources and the accumulated indigenous knowledge of how to use them

南半球国家称，北半球公司的所谓“发明”实际上只是不但掠夺了他们当地的基因资源，而且掠夺了他们通过长期积

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Southern countries claim that what northern companies call “inventions ” are really the pirating of their local genetic resources and the accumulated indigenous knowledge of how to use them.

南半球国家称，北半球公司的所谓“发明”实际上只是不但掠夺了他们当地的基因资源，而且掠夺了他们通过长期积累而形成的关于如何利用这些资源的知识

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Occasionally, however, there are inventions which change the way we live.

然而，偶尔有发明会彻底改变我们的生活方式。

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"Yet we are still patting ourselves in the back for coming up with silly ""inventions "" like flush-free toilets."

人类却还在为研究出上厕所不必抽水的无聊"发明"而沾沾自喜。

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Should they qualify as human inventions if researchers insert a single gene into their biological makeup? The answer from the patent office is, yes.

如果研究人员给自己的生物构成加入一个单基因，它们们自己是否应算作人类发明物呢?专利署的答复是，是的。

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As with most inventions , Morse borrowed from the ideas of many others in making his telegraph.

如同大多数发明一样，摩尔斯在制作电报借用了许多其他人的想法。

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Our world progresses because we all desire a better life. New inventions are made because we desire something better. We go to school and study hard because we want something better.

世界之所以进步是因为我们都渴望过上更好的生活,新发明的产生也是因为我们渴望更好的东西,我们努力去学习也是因为我们想要更好的东西。

属类：社会文化-热点文章-富爸爸穷爸爸

Markets, software, developments, inventions , laboratory notebooks, processes, formulas, technology, designs, drawings, engineering, hardware configuration information, marketing, licenses, finances, budgets and other business information.

市场、软件、开发、发明、实验记录、过程、配方、工艺、设计、图纸、工程、硬件配置信息、市场推广、许可、财务、预算以及其他商业信息。

属类：商务文书-保密协议-

Controlled fire and the wheel are two such inventions which allowed our ancestors to live a better life in safety.

受控制的火以及车轮就是这样两种发明，它们使我们的祖先在安全上获得更好的生活。

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Mr. Sloan’s conception was a fireproof curtain with heat fusible linkage, which would drop instantly and automatically in the event of a fire; it was simple, practical and, like most good inventions , immediately obvious-once somebody thinks of it.

思龙先生的发明是一种采用可熔断挂钩的防火帘,当出现火灾时,会立即自动的掉落悬挂下来,阻挡大火蔓延。这种发明就像大多数发明一样,简单实用,点破不值钱。

属类：单位简介-公司简介-

The Song dynasty contributed three great inventions to world civilization

宋朝的三大发明对世界文明作出了贡献。

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The Song Dynasty contributed three inventions to world civilization.

宋朝为世界文明做出了三大发明的贡献。

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The Song Dynasty contributed three great inventions to world civilization.

宋朝有三大文明对世界文明做出了贡献。

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All other inventions and discoveries were inconsiderable or at least subordinate

所有其它的发明和发现都显得微不足道，或至少退居次要地位。

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All of these eventually led to the later inventions radio and the television and of electronics after them.

所有这些发明最终导致了此后的飞机、电视和其后的电子元器件的发明。

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When he was 22, he moved to New York to be an inventor. With the money he made from some of his earlier inventions , Thomas Edison opened up his own lab in New Jersey.

他22岁时，搬到纽约，他想成为一个发明家。用他的一些早期发明所赚到的钱，爱迪生在新泽西创办了自己的实验室。

属类：学习英语-教材英语-初三

His 6,000 inventions included the electric light bulb, the phonograph, and the mimeograph machine.

他的六千项发明包括电灯泡、留声机(唱机)和油印机。

属类：综合句库-典型例句-

These inventions had obtained for him the renown of more than human sagacity

他的这些发明使人们把他看得神乎其神。

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He came from a poor family, but he had a good mind and he studied all of the great inventions of the day. He was particularly interested in the idea of a wireless telegraph.

他家境贫寒，但很有才智，他研究了当时所有重大发明，他对无线电报的想法特别感兴趣。

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He fathered many inventions .

他有过许多发明。

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