发明者

Many well known historical personages including Jesus, Buddah, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Krishna, Zoroaster, Mahavira, Quetzalcoatl, Akhenaton, Moses, and more recent inventors and of course many other people who will probably remain anonymous, were probably members of such a secret organization.

很多知名的历史要人，包括耶稣、佛陀、老子、孔子、奎师那、琐罗亚斯德、玛哈雅维、羽蛇神、埃克那顿、摩西和其他新近的发明者，当然还有其他很多人很可能仍然是匿名的，很可能是这样的秘密组织的成员。

Smoking snuff customs, derived from the inventor of Indian tobacco.

吸鼻烟的习俗，源自烟草发明者印第安人。

A regular reference to Proust in such a major publication struck me as remarkable, and it was only until I'd read Andre Maurois's Proust: Portrait of a Genius that I understood what this was all about.

因著作 《追忆逝水年华》而闻名的Marcel Proust并不是这份问卷的发明者，但这份问卷因为他特别的答案而出名，并在当年时髦的巴黎人沙龙中颇为流行。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。