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 From an early age, Thomas Edison loved to question things.
16 一个好奇男孩从小,托马斯·爱迪生喜欢质疑事物.
He spent his whole life learning why and how things worked.
他一生都在学习为什么和如何工作
Once he knew how things worked, he tried to figure out how to make them work better.
一旦他知道事情是如何运作的,他试图找出如何让事情变得更好.
Thomas Edison invented or improved over a thousand things, some of which we use every day.
托马斯·爱迪生发明或改进了一千多件东西,其中一些我们每天都使用.
Many people think of him as one of the greatest American inventors of all time.
许多人把他视为有史以来最伟大的美国发明家之一.
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 as a boy, did not do well in school.
由于Al被称作男孩,在学校表现不佳。
In those days, students memorized facts.
在那些时候,学生会记住事实。
They didn’t explore and ask their own questions, which is what Al loved to do.
他们没有去探究自己的问题,
Al’s mother took her son out of school and taught him at home.
阿尔的母亲将她的儿子带出学校,在家教他.
She taught him to love to read.
她教他爱读书.
His father gave Al ten cents for every classic book he read.
他的父亲给了 他读的每一本经典书都要十美分
Thomas Edison at fourteen years old Al started to work on the railroad when he was twelve years old.
托马斯·爱迪生14岁 艾尔12岁时开始在铁路上工作.
He sold food and newspapers.
他卖食物和报纸。
Al used the money he earned to buy books and science supplies.
艾尔用他挣来的钱购买书籍和科学用品.
He set up a lab in a baggage car until an accidental fire ended his experiments.
他在行李车里建立了一个实验室,直到一场意外起火结束他的实验.
Also around this time, Al lost most of his hearing.
同时, 艾尔失去了大部分听力。
As an adult, he would say someone grabbed him by the ears and pulled him onto a train.
作为一个成年人,他会说有人抓住他的耳朵,把他拉上火车。
When he was fifteen, Al saved a young boy’s life.
当他15岁时, Al救了一个男孩的性命。
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 thankful father offered to teach Al how to be a telegraph operator.
孩童的感恩之父提出要教Al如何做电报员。
As Al grew older, he traveled around the country as a telegraph operator.
作为 艾尔长大了,他以电报员的身份到全国各地旅行.
He wanted to be called Tom and continued to be interested in science.
他想被称作"汤姆"并继续对科学感兴趣.
He spent much of the money he earned on books and supplies.
他把赚来的大部分钱花在了书籍和用品上.
Edison the Inventor After a few years, Edison decided to become a full-time inventor.
发明者爱迪生 几年后,爱迪生决定成为全职发明家.
Some of his early inventions were improvements on the telegraph.
他的一些早期发明是对电报的改进.
For example, he found a way to send two messages and receive two messages at the same time.
例如他找到了一种同时发送两条信息并接收两条信息的方法.
Earlier telegraphs could only send or receive one.
早期的电报只能发送或接收.
Edison received his first patent, for an electric vote counter, in 1869.
爱迪生于1869年获得了他的第一个专利,作为电动投票台.
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 voting machine Do You Know?
爱迪生改进的电报爱迪生的电动投票机你知道吗?
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 found partners and began to build and sell some of his inventions.
一个"新实验室"爱迪生找到了合伙人,并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 for-profit research lab in the world.
它是世界上第一个营利性研究实验室.
People called it the “invention factory.”
人们称之为“发明厂”。 “
There, Edison worked for many hours each day, and many of his workers stayed with him just as long.
在那里,爱迪生每天工作了好几个小时,他的许多工人都和他呆在一起一样长.
Edison sketched his ideas in notebooks.
爱迪生在笔记本上勾画出他的想法.
He gave the sketches to his workers, who then created the inventions.
他把草图交给了自己的工人,他们随后创造了这些发明.
Edison filled 3,500 notebooks with ideas for inventions.
爱迪生为3500本笔记本填充了发明的想法.
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 make themselves heard.
人们不得不大叫在电话里,让自己听到。
The farther away the telephones were, the worse it was.
电话越远,情况就越糟糕。
In 1877, Edison and his team developed a way to make a caller’s voice louder and clearer, even over long distances.
1877年,爱迪生和他的团队发展出一种方法,让呼叫者的声音更响亮更清晰,甚至长途跋涉.
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 wanted to find a way to record words and play them back.
爱迪生还想找一种方法来记录文字并放回去.
He invented a machine called the phonograph.
他发明了一台叫做留声机的机器.
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 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 was quite exciting to people in the 1800s.
留声机在1800年代对人们相当兴奋.
Edison became famous, but he could not figure out what to do with his invention.
爱迪生变得出名了,但他无法想出用他发明的方法.
All his experiments failed.
他所有的实验都失败了
Years later, after many improvements, the phonograph became popular as a way to record and listen to music.
多年后,经过许多改进后,留声机逐渐被流行为录音和收听音乐的一种方式.
Edison working on an early version of the phonograph A Special Project For many years, people had tried to find a practical way to use electricity to make light.
爱迪生在早期的留声机A特效项目上工作了多年,人们一直想找一种实用的方法来用电来制造光.
Many inventors created light bulbs.
许多发明家创造了灯泡.
The bulbs either burned too brightly or dimly, or burned out too fast.
灯泡烧得太亮或者太暗 或者烧得太快
In 1878, Edison decided to solve this problem.
1878年,爱迪生决定解决这个问题.
Edison and his team worked around the clock.
爱迪生和他的团队昼夜工作.
They had to find a material for the filament— the part of a light bulb that glows.
他们必须找到丝状物——发光灯泡的一部分。
They tried thousands of materials until they found one that worked.
他们试了上千种材料 直到找到有效的材料
Edison opened the lab to visitors.
爱迪生向访客开放了实验室.
People were amazed when they saw the lab brightly lit with electric lights.
人们看到实验室被电灯照亮时感到惊讶.
Edison’s team then had to create an electrical system that could light a building and even a city.
Edison的团队随后不得不建立一个能点燃一栋建筑甚至一座城市的电气系统.
In 1881, Edison moved to New York City to help start the first electric power plant.
1881年,爱迪生搬到了纽约市,帮助创办了第一个发电厂.
In time, many places replaced gas or oil lamps with electric bulbs.
随着时间的推移,多地用电灯泡取代了天然气或油灯.
The War of the Currents In the 1880s and 1890s, Edison was involved in a competition with another electric company.
海流之战 1880年代和1890年代,爱迪生参与了与另一家电商公司的竞争.
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 eventually became more popular.
AC最终更受欢迎.
Nikola Tesla Other Exciting Ideas In 1887, Edison moved into a larger lab in West Orange, New Jersey.
尼古拉·特斯拉(Nikola Tesla Other Exciling Ideas) 在1887年,爱迪生搬入了新泽西州西奥兰治的一个更大的实验室.
Around that time, he was shown a machine that quickly played many still images one after another.
大约在那个时候,他被展示了一台机器,它迅速播放了许多相继的静态图像.
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 asked one of his workers, William Dickson, to work on two machines.
爱迪生要求他的一个工人威廉·迪克森在两台机器上工作.
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。
Dickson and Edison invented the Kinetograph, a motion picture camera.
迪克森和爱迪生发明了"基内特克",即一款运动相机.
They also invented the Kinetoscope.
他们还发明了克内托镜.
This projector allowed one person to watch the movie through a small hole.
这个投影机允许一人通过一个小洞观看电影.
Edison tried to link sound with the images of this new invention.
爱迪生试图将声音与这个新发明的图像联系起来.
He found it too hard to get the sound and pictures to match, so his films were silent.
他发现声音和相片难以匹配,因此他的电影默默无闻.
A Remarkable Man Edison continued to put ideas into his notebooks and work with his team to build his inventions.
A级 出名的曼·爱迪生(Man Edison)继续将想法放入他的笔记本,并和他的团队合作来建立他的发明.
Some of his other inventions included machines for mining, improved batteries, and new uses for cement.
他的其他一些发明包括采矿机械,改良电池,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.
As Edison once said, “If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would astound ourselves.”
正如爱迪生曾经说过的那样,“如果我们做了我们有能力做的所有事情,我们将感到惊讶。 “