bright spark

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Update: Some bright spark has set up a “Socks for Japan” drive.
更新：目前一些自認為聰明的人建立了一個“給日本捐襪子”的渠道。
If you want my guess: some marketing bright spark tried “round pound” pricing and was surprised to find that it worked.
如果讓我來猜，估計情況是這樣的：一些市場營銷“天才”試了試“整數(shù)價”，然后驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn)，這招居然很管用。
That points to his next insight, that the commercialisation, diffusion and use of inventions is of more value to companies and societies than the initial bright spark.
這個為他下個深入的觀點進行鋪墊。對公司和社會來說，比起最初閃現(xiàn)的發(fā)明火花，更具價值的是科技走向商業(yè)化，并被廣泛運用。

That would have created an incentive for agriculture to spread once some bright spark invented it.
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Some Brazilian bright spark, endowed with the most unbelievable arrogance, had been attacking defenceless texts and changing them out of all recognition.
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