Thomas Edison
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents A Curious Boy.
内容表 A好奇男孩.
4 Young Al.
4 杨艾尔.
5 Edison the Inventor.
5 发明者爱迪生.
7 A New Lab.
7 新实验室。
8 Important Inventions.
8重要发明.
10 A Special Project.
10 一个特别项目。
12 Other Exciting Ideas.
12 其他令人兴奋的想法。
14 A Remarkable Man.
14 一个有名的人。
15 Glossary.
15 词汇。
16 A Curious Boy Thomas Edison loved to question things.
16,一个好奇的男孩托马斯·爱迪生喜欢质疑事物.
He loved to learn how things worked.
他喜欢学习如何工作。
He also loved to make things work better.
他也喜欢让事情变得更好。
Many people think of him as one of the greatest inventors of all time.
许多人认为他是有史以来最伟大的发明家之一.
Young Al Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847.
年轻的阿尔·托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生于1847年2月11日.
Al, as he was called, did not do well in school.
他被称作Al,在学校表现不佳。
He wanted to question and explore.
他想质疑和探索。
At that time, school was mostly about remembering facts.
当时,学校主要是为了回忆事实.
Al’s mom took him out of school and taught him at home.
Al的妈妈将他带出学校,在家教他.
She taught him to love to read.
她教他爱读书.
Thomas Edison at fourteen years old Al sold food and newspapers on trains when he was twelve years old.
托马斯·爱迪生14岁 艾尔12岁时在火车上出售了食品和报纸.
He used the money he earned to buy books and materials for experiments.
他用他挣来的钱购买了用于实验的书籍和材料.
He set up a lab in a train car.
他在火车车上建立了一个实验室.
Also around this time, Al lost most of his hearing.
同时, 艾尔失去了大部分听力。
When he was fifteen, Al saved a boy’s life.
当他15岁时, Al救了一个男孩一命。
The boy was about to be run over by a boxcar when Al grabbed him.
艾尔抓他时,这男孩正要被一辆车撞倒。
The child’s father offered to teach Al how to be a telegraph operator.
孩子的父亲愿意教Al如何做电报员。
As Al grew older, he traveled around as a telegraph operator.
作为 艾尔长大了,他作为电报员四处旅行.
He continued to be interested in science.
他继续对科学感兴趣.
Edison the Inventor Edison wanted to invent things full- time.
爱迪生发明家爱迪生想 发明全天候的东西
He invented ways to make the telegraph better.
他发明了使电报更好的方法.
He earned his first patent, for an electric vote counter, in 1869.
他在1869年获得了第一个专利,一个电动计票台.
The invention did not do well.
发明效果不好。
Edison continued to invent.
爱迪生继续发明.
He said he would not give up, no matter what happened.
他说无论发生什么 他都不会放弃的
Edison’s improved telegraph Edison’s electric vote counter Do You Know?
爱迪生改进的电报爱迪生的电动投票柜台你知道吗?
The telegraph let people communicate before the invention of the telephone.
电报允许人们在电话发明前进行交流.
It used a code of dots and dashes, or short and long beeps, to form letters.
它使用"点"和"破折"的代码,或者短而长的"哔"来形成字母.
A New Lab Edison began building and selling some of his inventions.
新实验室爱迪生开始建造并出售他的一些发明.
In 1876, he built a lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1876年,他在新泽西州门洛公园(Menlo Park)建造了实验室.
It was the first research lab in the world built to make money.
它是世界上第一个为赚钱而建的研究实验室.
Many people called it the “invention factory.”
许多人称之为“发明厂。 “
Edison and his workers were there many hours each day.
爱迪生和他的工人每天在那里呆了好几个小时.
Edison put his ideas in notebooks.
爱迪生把他的想法放在笔记本上.
He gave the notebooks to his workers, who then made the inventions.
他把笔记本交给了工人,工人后来发明了这些.
Edison filled 3,500 notebooks with ideas.
爱迪生把3500本笔记本装满了想法.
Not all of those ideas worked.
并非所有这些想法都奏效。
Edison continued to work.
爱迪生继续工作.
He said he needed to find out all the ways something didn’t work to find out the way it did.
他表示他需要找出一切方法,
Edison writing in a notebook (main) and some pages from his notebooks (right) Important Inventions The telephone was invented in 1876, but it didn’t work well.
爱迪生用笔记本(主笔)写作,并从他的笔记本上写出一些页子(正笔) 重要发明 电话发明于1876年,
People had to yell into the phone to be heard.
人们不得不在电话里大叫才能被听到。
I n 18 7 7, Edison and his team invented a way to make the telephone work better.
我18 7 7,爱迪生和他的团队发明了一种使电话工作更好的方法.
Edison’s Family Edison married Mary Stilwell in 1871.
爱迪生的家庭爱迪生于1871年与玛丽·斯蒂尔威尔结婚.
They had three children—Marion, Thomas Jr.
他们有三个孩子... 马里昂,小托马斯.
, and William.
还有威廉
Mary died in 1884.
1884年玛丽去世.
Edison married his second wife, Mina Miller, in 1886.
1886年爱迪生与第二任妻子米娜·米勒结婚.
They had three children—Madeleine, Charles, and Theodore.
他们有三个孩子... 马德琳、查尔斯和西奥多
Edison also invented a machine that could record words and then play them back.
爱迪生还发明了一种能够记录文字并再放回文字的机器.
The first thing Edison recorded was “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
Edison记录的第一件事是“Mary有一只小羊。 “
Some people didn’t believe the machine worked.
有些人不相信机器有用。
They thought someone was talking in another room!
他们以为有人在另一个房间里说话!
The phonograph made Edison famous.
留声机使爱迪生出名.
Edison working on an early phonograph A Special Project For years, people had tried to make a safe light bulb that most people could buy.
爱迪生在早期的留声机A特别项目上工作多年,人们试图制造一个安全灯泡,大多数人可以购买.
Many inventors had tried and failed.
许多发明家曾经尝试过,但失败了.
First, Edison and his team had to find the right filament— the part of a light bulb that glows.
首先,爱迪生和他的团队必须找到正确的丝线——发光灯泡的部分.
They tried thousands of materials.
他们尝试了上千种材料。
They finally found one that worked.
他们终于找到一个有效的。
People were amazed by Edison’s electric lights.
人们对爱迪生的电灯感到惊讶。
Edison then had to make a system that could light a building and even a city.
爱迪生随后不得不制造一个能够点燃一栋建筑甚至一栋城市的系统.
In 1881, Edison moved to New York City.
1881年,爱迪生搬到了纽约市.
He helped start the first electric power plant.
他帮助创办了第一个发电厂.
In time, many places began to use electric lights.
随着时间的推移,许多地方开始使用电灯.
The War of the Currents In the 1880s and 1890s, Edison competed with another electric company.
海流之战 在1880年代和1890年代,爱迪生与另一家电力公司竞争.
Edison’s method of delivering electricity was called direct current, or DC.
Edison的供电方法被称为直流电,即DC。
The other company said the method called alternating current, or AC, was better.
另一家公司说,称为交替电流的方法更好。
AC was invented by Nikola Tesla.
AC由尼古拉·特斯拉发明.
AC would later win the competition.
AC后来将赢得比赛.
Nikola Tesla Other Exciting Ideas In 1887, Edison moved to a new lab in New Jersey.
尼古拉·特斯拉(Nikola Tesla Other Exciling Ideas) 在1887年,爱迪生搬到了新泽西的新实验室.
Around that time, he saw a machine that quickly played many images one after another.
大约在那个时候,他看到了一个机器,它迅速播放了许多相继的图像.
The things in the images looked as if they were moving!
画面中的东西看起来像是在动!
Edison had his team work on two machines.
爱迪生让他的团队在两台机器上工作.
One machine would record the images, and the other would show them.
一台机器将记录图像,另一台将显示图像。
Edison and his team invented a movie camera.
爱迪生和他的团队发明了一部电影相机.
They also invented a machine to show the images.
他们还发明了一台显示图像的机器.
Edison tried to put sound with the images, but it did not work.
爱迪生试图将声音与图像一起放入,但效果不佳.
A Remarkable Man Edison continued to invent.
一个值得称道的爱迪生继续发明.
Some of his other inventions included machines to mine materials, better batteries, and new uses for cement.
他的一些其他发明包括了用于矿取材料的机器,更好的电池,以及水泥的新用途等.
During his life, Edison had 1,093 patents, which was a record at the time.
在其生平中,爱迪生拥有了1093项专利,这是当时的记录.
He worked until he was more than eighty years old.
他工作到80多岁.
Thomas Edison died on October 18, 1931.
托马斯·爱迪生于1931年10月18日去世.
President Herbert Hoover asked people to turn out their lights for a short time.
赫伯特总统 胡佛请人短暂地把灯关了.
He asked them to think about the great changes Thomas Edison had made in their lives.
他要求他们思考托马斯·爱迪生在生活中所做的巨大改变.