perpetual motion machine

基本解释

A perpetual wealth machine is just as impossible as a perpetual motion machine.
永远创造财富的机制像永动机一样是不可能存在的。
Making energy like the sun does might too cheap to meter or as uneconomical as a perpetual motion machine.
像太阳一样产生能量可能会太便宜以至于无法计费，或是像永动机一样太不合算。
And you were founded by 2 brain surgeon rocket scientist Stanford PhD grads who invented a perpetual motion machine, blah blah blah.
而且你们公司是由两名斯坦福脑科博士创立，他们还发明了永动机，等等。

That would that would give rise to a perpetual motion machine, breaking of the second law. It can't happen.
否则就会使,得永动机出现，打破第二定律那是不可能的。
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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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