the invention of paper, gunpowder, printing and the compass.
例句:
In the East, especially in East Asia where Chinese culture was the mainstream, there were many illuminating examples of creativity and inventiveness in 5,000 years of Chinese history. For example, the invention of paper, gunpowder, printing and the compass. There were also great thinkers like Confucius, Mencius, Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi.
在東方，特別是東亞文化中，主流是中華文化。中國在五千年歷史中有過很輝煌的創新與發明，如造紙、火藥、印刷術和指南針，也出現了像孔子、孟子、老子、莊子這些偉大的思想家。