A There are so many people that the tickets are all sold out!
人太多了，票都卖完了。
B Luckily we got the last two.
幸好我们买了最后两张。
A Look, Danny. The Four Great Inventions!
看，丹丹，四大发明！
B Gunpowder, compass, the paper making, and the printing.
火药、指南针、造纸术和印刷术。
A I really admire those who made such great inventions!
我真崇拜这些伟大的发明者。
B May, I don't see why they are great. They are just simple things.
阿美，我不明白有什么伟大的。它们只是些很简单的东西啊。
A They look simple today. But they were milestones in their times.
它们今天看起来很简单。但在它们那个时代却是里程碑。
B Milestones? May, you must be kidding.
里程碑？阿美，你在开玩笑吧。
A Just think B ill Gates, those inventions are as important as the windows system.
想想比尔?盖茨，那些发明的重要性不亚于Windows 操作系统。
B Well, I suppose the ancient inventors made a lot of money out of them.
我想古代的发明家们肯定从它们身上赚了不少钱吧。
A No, quite the contrary.
不，恰恰相反。
B Why? Didn't you say that they were milestones?
为什么？你不是说它们是里程碑吗？
A Yes, but they went to the public without any patent protection.
是啊，但是它们没有任何专利保护就进入市场了。
B Well, their inventors were not as clever as Bill Gates.
哦，它们的发明者可没有比尔?盖茨那么聪明啊。
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