perpetual motion machine

基本解释

A perpetual wealth machine is just as impossible as a perpetual motion machine.
永遠創造財富的機制像永動機一樣是不可能存在的。
Making energy like the sun does might too cheap to meter or as uneconomical as a perpetual motion machine.
像太陽一樣産生能量可能會太便宜以至於無法計費，或是像永動機一樣太不郃算。
And you were founded by 2 brain surgeon rocket scientist Stanford PhD grads who invented a perpetual motion machine, blah blah blah.
而且你們公司是由兩名斯坦福腦科博士創立，他們還發明了永動機，等等。

That would that would give rise to a perpetual motion machine, breaking of the second law. It can't happen.
否則就會使,得永動機出現，打破第二定律那是不可能的。
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This creates a sort of government staffing perpetual motion machine, with agencies adding more and more headcount just to satisfy the demands of other government agencies.
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We have a perpetual motion machine of continued prosperity upwards.
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It was a perpetual motion machine that never worked.
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