Rube Goldberg

同根派生

We kept saying Rube Goldberg, but I found this English guy named W.
羅賓蓀的英國人（實(shí)際上）在汝比。郭德堡之前就描述過機(jī)器人了。
In our imaginations we started moving to a place that was much more Rube Goldberg.
機(jī)器人城是有生命的機(jī)器，在那里所有的東西都是相互關(guān)連的。
Now the international system has come to depend on what looks more like a global Rube Goldberg machine running on hot money.
如今的國際（金融）體系越來越依賴于以游資運(yùn)作，看起來更像個(gè)全球范圍內(nèi)的牛刀殺雞機(jī)制。
Like a Rube Goldberg invention, it builds upon existing parts, embracing all their gawkiness but gradually smoothing out operations with optimization over time.
就像小題大做的發(fā)明一樣，進(jìn)化是在已有物種的基礎(chǔ)上來完成其建造，期間包容物種的所有瑕疵，但是以最優(yōu)方式來完善其建造工藝。
But this archetypal figure, whose ranks receive nearly one in five patents issued by the U.S.Patent and Trademark Office, may sometimes be more Rube Goldberg than Thomas Edison.
但是若要從這個(gè)自美國專利及商標(biāo)局手中取得將近1/5專利的族群中找個(gè)人當(dāng)代表，這個(gè)人恐怕比較接近狂想發(fā)明家戈德堡，而不是愛迪生。