外國人最想和你聊的名人話題：愛迪生

     Listen to the story about Edison.
     聽一聽關于愛迪生的故事。
     Thomas Edison was a man of few words.
     托馬斯·愛迪生是個沉默寡言的人。
     Edison contributed much to the progress of man.
     愛迪生對人類的進步做出了巨大的貢獻。
     Edison had a great aptitude for inventing things.
     愛迪生具有發(fā)明創(chuàng)造的卓越才能。
     You know something about Edison, don't you?
     你知道有關托馬斯·愛迪生的事嗎？
     This discovery was patented as the "Edison effect".
     這個發(fā)現(xiàn)以"愛迪生效應"獲得發(fā)明專利。
     Thomas Edison was a great scientist and an inventor.
     托馬斯·愛迪生是一個偉大的科學家和發(fā)明家。
     Edison invented any number of things during his life.
     愛迪生一生中發(fā)明了許多東西。
     Young Edison had a strong aspiration to be an inventor.
     年幼的愛迪生就渴望成為一名發(fā)明家。
     The young man is very clever; he may be another Edison.
     這個年輕人很聰明，他可能成為又一個愛迪生。
     But mostly Edison was stymied about how to meter electricity.
     困擾愛迪生的主要是如何計量電流的問題。
     Name some of Thomas Edison's contributions to science.
     請列舉一些托馬斯·愛迪生對科學的貢獻。
     I'm alone in Thomas Edison's office in West Orange, New Jersey.
     我獨自站在新澤西州西奧蘭治市托馬斯·愛迪生的辦公室里。
     Few people knew that Edison worked very hard for every invention.
     只有少數(shù)的人知道愛迪生為每個發(fā)明付出了多大努力。
     When he told this to Edison's mother, she took her son out of school.
     當他把這些告訴給愛迪生的媽媽后，她把兒子從學校領走了。
     If it weren't for Edison, we'd all be watching TV by candle light.
     如果沒有愛迪生的話，我們就只能點著蠟燭看電視了。
     Great men have often risen from poverty-Lincoln and Edison, for example.
     大人物常常出身貧寒，例如林肯和愛迪生。
     It all began in 1877 when Thomas Edison made the first recording of a human voice.
     一切始于1877年，這一年托馬斯·愛迪生第一次錄下了人的聲音。
     Thomas Edison was awarded more patents on inventions than any other American.
     托馬斯·愛迪生擁有的發(fā)明專利比其他任何一個美國人都多。
     The incandescent lamp we use in daily life was invented by Edison.
     我們?nèi)粘Ｉ钪杏玫陌谉霟羰菒鄣仙l(fā)明的。
     Thomas Edison said he liked people who had ideas.
     托馬斯·愛迪生說過他喜歡有思想的人。
     So much of what we take for granted in our daily lives is traceable back to Edison and his genius.
     在我們的日常生活中我們已經(jīng)習以為常的許多東西，都可以追溯到愛迪生和他的天才。
     You're listening to one of Edison's first phonographs playing The Whistler and His Dog.
     你現(xiàn)在聽到的是愛迪生第一批唱機之一播送的樂曲，曲名是《吹口哨的人和他的狗》。
     There is no one on the planet who does that better than Steve Jobs, really the Thomas Edison of our time.
     世上沒有比史蒂夫·喬布斯做得更好了，他是我們這個時代的托馬斯·愛迪生。
     So at the peak of his career Edison diverted his attention away from designing electrical devices to focus on the electrical delivery network itself.
     所以愛迪生在事業(yè)的頂峰時期，轉移了對設計電子設備的注意力，開始關注電力輸送網(wǎng)絡本身。
     In 2001 Gorlov won the Edison patent award for his invention.
     2001年，佐羅夫因這個發(fā)明而獲得了愛迪生專利獎。