专利使用费让这位发明家得以再次立足于商界。

The royalties enabled the inventor to re-establish himself in business.

我年轻时的抱负是成为一个发明家。

In my youth my ambition had been to be an inventor.

发明家不是精神不正常的科学家。

Inventors are not mad scientists.

这位发明家花费了几个月的时间精心绘制了一种新发动机的平面图。

The inventor spent months in elaborating his plans for a new engine.

但这也不能阻止发明家想出新的飞行方式，并试着说服投资者支持他们的想法，尽管那些想法有时很离谱。

But that won't stop inventors from dreaming up new ways to fly and trying to persuade investors to back their sometimes outrageous schemes.

许多发明家的脑海中仍有鲜活生动的个人化飞行梦想，一些人开发循环动力飞行器，另一些人则把大量资金投入喷气背包。

The dream of personalised flight is still vivid in the minds of many inventors, some developing cycle-powered craft, others pouring money into jetpacks.

我明白了不同的发明家经常发明相似的东西。

I learned that different inventors often invent similar things.

他梦想成为发明家。

He dreamed of being a inventor.

因此,发明家们提出了一些创造性的想法,试图减少污染和噪音。

So inventors are coming up with creative ideas to try to reduce the pollution and noise.

他的指导加上我对发明的兴趣使我成为一名工程师和发明家。

His guiding hands, together with my interest in inventing, led me to become an engineer and an inventor.

当我和我父亲一起工作的时候，我开始意识到父亲是一个相当了不起的发明家。

As my father and I worked together, I began to realize that my dad was quite an inventor himself.