Kid Inventors
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents Kid Power!
内容表 Kid Power!
4 Maine Winters Are Cold!
缅因州冬天是寒冷的!
5 Way Cool.
五道凉.
6 Getting a Jump on the Competition.
6 跳跃比赛。
7 A Skateboard for the Snow.
雪花滑板7号
8 Designing Girl.
8 设计女孩。
9 New Ways to Say Hello.
九道新道问好.
10 Smells Like a New Catcher’s Mitt.
10 闻起来像新捕手的米特.
11 A Little Light on the Subject.
11 主题上的"小灯".
12 Becoming an Inventor.
12成为发明家。
13 Glossary.
13 词汇。
16 Kid Power!
16岁少年力量!
What do Popsicles, snowboards, and trampolines have in common?
冰棍、滑板和蹦床有什么共同点?
Kids invented them.
孩子们发明的
An invention is a new product, process, or service.
发明是一种新产品、工艺或服务。
It may be unique or an improvement over something else.
这可能是独特的,或者比其他东西有改进。
Many successful inventors start young.
许多成功的发明家开始年轻.
When he was just twelve years old, Benjamin Franklin invented swim fins.
当他才12岁时,本杰明·富兰克林发明了游泳鳍.
Another twelve- year-old, Margaret Knight, invented a safety device for factory workers.
另一位12岁的玛格丽特·奈特发明了工厂工人的安全装置.
It kept them from getting their fingers injured in machines.
这使他们的手指在机器中受伤。
What else have kids invented?
还有什么孩子发明的?
To make swimming easier, young Ben Franklin invented fins for his hands and feet.
为了便于游泳,年轻的本·富兰克林为手足发明了鳍.
Maine Winters Are Cold!
缅因州冬天冷酷!
Growing up on a farm in Maine, Chester Greenwood worked outside in the winter.
在缅因州的一个农场上长大后,切斯特·格林伍德在冬天在外面工作.
The bitter cold made his ears turn red and hurt.
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In 1873, at fifteen, he made a wire headpiece to cover his ears.
1873年,15岁时,他用铁丝头来盖住耳朵.
He asked his grandmother to sew bear fur on it.
他要求外婆在上面缝上熊皮.
He wore it, and his ears no longer got cold.
他穿了它,耳朵也不再冷了。
At first, his friends laughed, but soon they wanted “ear protectors,” too.
起初,他的朋友大笑,但很快他们也想要“保护者”。
In 1877, Chester received a patent for earmuffs, which proved he invented them.
1877年,切斯特获得了耳膜的专利,这证明了他发明了耳膜.
No one could use his idea without permission.
没有人可以使用他的想法 未经许可。
Many of Chester’s neighbors worked with him to make earmuffs in their homes to sell to stores.
切斯特的许多邻居都与他合作,在家中做耳罩来出售给商店.
Way Cool What’s better on a hot day than a refreshing lick of a Popsicle?
不错 比起冰棒来,
An eleven-year-old Californian invented this treat.
十一岁的加利福尼亚人发明了这个治疗。
In 1905, Frank Epperson ran the soda stand in a small amusement park.
1905年,弗兰克·埃普森在一个小游乐园里经营了汽水摊.
He sold drinks made from soda water mixed with flavor packets.
他卖的是由苏打水和口味包混合而成的饮料.
Frank wondered how a frozen drink would taste.
弗兰克想知道冷冻饮料的味道
One cold night, he left a glass of flavored soda outside with a wooden stirring stick in it.
一个寒冷的夜晚,他把一杯口味的汽水放在外面,里面有一根木棍来搅拌.
The soda froze.
苏打水冻僵了
Frank took his creation to school, and his classmates said it tasted good.
弗兰克把他的创作带到了学校,他的同班同学们都说味道不错.
When Frank grew up, he made and sold “Ep-sicles.”
当Frank长大后,他制作并销售了“Ep-sicles”。 “
His kids suggested he change the name to “Popsicles.”
他的孩子们建议他把名字改为"Popsicles". “
The rest is history.
其余为历史.
Modern earmuffs are quite similar to the original ones from more than one hundred years ago.
现代耳膜与一百多年前的原生耳膜相当相近.
Popsicles are still popular.
冰棒仍然很受欢迎.
More than two billion are sold each year.
每年售出20多亿.
Getting a Jump on the Competition George Nissen, a natural acrobat, loved tumbling and gymnastics.
获得一个跳跃比赛 乔治·尼森, 一个天然的杂技演员, 喜欢打倒和体操。
At the circus, he watched acrobats somersaulting off the safety net.
在马戏团里,他看着杂技演员从安全网上跳下
George thought gymnastics on that net would be thrilling.
George觉得那个网上的体操很刺激
When George was a teenager, he built a “bouncing rig.”
George在青少年时期建造了“爆破钻机 ” 。
In 1934, with the help of his college coach, Larry Griswold, he constructed the first trampoline.
1934年,在他的大学教练拉里·格里斯沃德的帮助下,他建造了第一台蹦床.
He made it out of scrap metal, canvas, and inner tubes.
他用废金属、帆布和内管做的
George and Larry made a portable version, and George demonstrated it everywhere.
乔治和拉里制作了可移植版本,乔治到处演示.
Trampolines were soon in many gyms, schools, and backyards.
特拉姆波利斯很快在许多体育馆,学校和后院.
In 2000, trampoline gymnastics became an Olympic event.
2000年,蹦床体操成为奥林匹克运动会.
George never stopped being an acrobat.
乔治从不停止做杂技演员.
On his eightieth birthday, he performed a handstand on the dining room table.
80岁生日时,他在餐桌上表演了手表.
A Skateboard for the Snow Tom Sims took up skateboarding in the 1960s.
雪人汤姆·西姆斯(英语:Snow Tom Sims)的滑板在20世纪60年代开始登上滑板.
He loved it, but he was sad that he couldn’t “board” in winter because of ice and snow.
他很喜欢,但他感到悲哀的是,由于冰雪,他无法在冬季“登上”飞机。
To solve his problem, he made a wooden “ski-board” in junior high shop class at age twelve.
为了解决他的问题,他在12岁时在初中的商店班上做了个木制"滑板".
He kept improving the design.
他不断改进设计.
He opened a company to build skateboards and snowboards.
他开办了一家公司来建造滑板和滑雪板.
Tom designed many boards, including some made specially to fit the feet of girls and women.
汤姆设计了许多板子,包括一些为适合女孩和妇女的脚而特制.
Tom won many skateboarding and snowboarding competitions.
汤姆赢得了多届滑板和滑雪比赛.
He performed snowboard stunts in a James Bond movie!
他在詹姆斯·邦德电影中表演了滑板特技!
He made snowboarding cool.
他让滑雪板很酷。
In 1998, snowboarders began competing at the Winter Olympic Games.
1998年,滑雪运动员开始参加冬季奥林匹克运动会比赛.
George Nissen introduces a kangaroo to his invention.
乔治·尼森在他的发明中引入了袋鼠.
Modern snowboards allow riders to perform many tricks.
现代滑雪板允许骑手表演许多花招.
Designing Girl Eleven-year-old Cassidy Goldstein had a school project due and nothing to use but broken crayons.
设计11岁的女孩 Cassidy Goldstein 有个学校项目要完成 只能用破蜡笔
She needed something that would hold small crayon pieces so she could draw with them.
她需要一些能保存小蜡笔碎片的东西 这样她就可以和它们一起画了
It had to be the right size to hold the pieces tight.
一定有合适的尺寸才能把棋子拉紧
Cassidy remembered that roses from the flower shop come with a small tube of water to keep them fresh.
卡西迪回忆起花店出产的花朵有一小管水来保持新鲜.
She used one of the tubes to make a prototype, or model, of her invention.
她利用其中一个管来制造出她发明的原型或模型.
She received a patent for her “crayon holder” in 2002 and was named Youth Inventor of the Year.
她于2002年获得了“蜡笔持有人”的专利,并被命名为国际年青年发明者。
New Ways to Say Hello When he was seventeen years old, Colorado native Ryan Patterson sat in a restaurant, trying to decide on a science project.
说你好的新方式 17岁时,科罗拉多州原住民瑞安·帕特森坐在一家餐厅,试图决定一个科学项目.
Some deaf customers came in and ordered food.
一些聋子顾客进来订购了食物.
The restaurant workers didn’t know sign language, so the customers had to use an interpreter.
餐厅工人不懂手语,
Ryan wondered what they would have done without the interpreter.
瑞安想知道没有翻译 他们会怎么做
His science project provided the answer.
他的科学项目提供了答案。
Ryan developed the Sign Language Translator.
瑞安开发了手语翻译.
It’s a glove that “reads” the finger alphabet of American Sign Language.
这是一只手套,
It sends letters to a small screen so that deaf and hearing people can communicate with each other.
它向一个小屏幕发送信件,以便聋人和听觉者可以互相交流.
Ryan won several awards, including a $103,000 scholarship to college.
瑞安获得多个奖项,包括大学奖学金103000美元.
Cassidy’s father started a company to help other kids develop and market their inventions.
Cassidy的父亲创办了一个公司,
Ryan’s glove translates the finger movements of American Sign Language into written English.
Ryan的手套将美国手语的手指运动翻译成书面英语.
Smells Like a New Catcher’s Mitt Hart Main’s sister was selling candles for a school fundraiser.
Mitt Hart Main的妹妹为学校募捐会卖蜡烛。
Hart took one whiff and complained that they were too flowery.
哈特吸了一口气,抱怨他们太花地了.
He asked why his sister wasn’t making any candles with smells that guys would like.
他问为何他妹妹不做任何带有男人喜欢的气味的蜡烛。
His family suggested that he invent some, and he did.
他的家人建议他发明一些,他做到了。
Man Cans are candles with guy- friendly scents, like “brand-new baseball mitt” and “fresh cut grass.”
男子罐子是带有男子友好气味的蜡烛,如"品牌新棒球手套"和"新鲜剪草"等. “
Hart uses recycled soup cans to hold the candles, but he can only eat so much soup.
哈特使用再生汤罐来握起蜡烛,但他只能吃这么多汤.
To get more cans, he donates canned soup to local soup kitchens and picks up the empty cans.
为了得到更多的罐子,他把罐子汤捐给当地的汤厨房取出空罐子.
Now Man Cans is selling lots of candles and feeding hungry people.
现在,男人 罐子卖出大量蜡烛并给饥饿的人们提供食物.
A Little Light on the Subject Blair Breazeale couldn’t wait to start sixth grade and get her own school locker.
Blair Breazeale身上的一盏小灯,
When she looked inside the dull, dark locker, though, she felt let down.
但是当她看里面 沉闷而黑暗的储物柜时 她觉得很失望
She tried shopping for decorations, but she couldn’t find what she wanted.
她尝试购买装饰品,
She decided to make something herself.
她决定自己做点什么
With her parents’ encouragement, she came up with Locker Lites, magnetic colored LED lights.
在她父母的鼓励下,她想到了Locker Lites,磁性有色LED灯.
A student can attach them anywhere in the locker.
学生可以在柜子里的任何地方附着.
Locker Lites come on when the locker door opens and turn off when it closes.
锁子Lites来了 当更衣室的门打开,关闭时关闭。
After the success of Man Cans, Hart created a line of candles for women called She Cans.
曼·坎斯成功后,哈特为女性创作了一行蜡烛"她罐".
Blair shows off a locker decorated with her inventions.
布莱尔展出她发明的柜子
As a next step, inventors often build a model of their invention.
作为下一步,发明家们经常会建立他们的发明的模型.
They might show it at a school science fair.
他们可能在学校科学展上展示
A trip to a larger gathering, such as a Maker Faire, might follow.
前往一个更大的聚会,例如一个"造物主"(Maker Faire),可能会随之而来.
Maker Faires are like big show-and- tells for all ages, where inventors share their ideas and creations.
Maker Faires就像所有年龄的大型表演和——讲述,发明者分享他们的想法和创作.
Students in grades five to eight can go to yearly competitions such as “ America’s Top Young Scientist.”
五至八年级的学生可以参加诸如“美国顶尖青年科学家”之类的年度竞赛。 “
The grand prize is $25,000.
大奖25000元.
Peyton Robertson, eleven, won this title for an improved sandbag.
11岁的佩顿·罗伯逊(Peyton Robertson)因为改进了的沙袋而获得了这个头衔.
Sandbags can protect places from flooding, but carrying heavy sandbags and putting enough into place can be hard and take a lot of time.
沙袋可以保护地方免于被洪水淹没,但携带重的沙袋并放入足够多的地方则会很困难并需要很多时间.
Peyton’s invention is lighter than a regular sandbag.
Peyton的发明比普通的沙袋轻.
It gets bigger when it absorbs water and protects better against flooding.
当它吸收了水,并更好地保护它免受洪水的侵袭时,它会变得更大.
Becoming an Inventor Becoming an inventor may seem impossible, but it’s not.
成为发明家 成为发明家似乎不可能,
Many inventors got their start when they saw a problem and tried to solve it.
许多发明家在看到一个问题并试图解决问题时有了起步.
Once they have an idea about how to solve a problem, budding inventors often talk to their parents, friends, or teachers about it.
一旦他们知道如何解决问题,萌芽的发明家们常常会和他们的父母,朋友,或老师谈论这个问题.
“ Advice I often give kids I meet is to not be afraid to ask someone for help,” says Hart Main.
Hart Main说, “我经常给我遇到的孩子们的建议是不要害怕向别人求助。”
He didn’t know how to make candles, so he talked to someone who did.
他不知道如何做蜡烛,
Talking with others can be a good way to improve an invention.
与他人交谈可以成为改进发明的好方法.
Braeden Benedict, 14, won the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist” in 2011.
布莱登·本尼迪克特(Breeden Benedict,14岁)于2011年获得"美国顶级青年科学家"称号.
He invented a low-cost sensor that warns when a football player may have a serious but hard-to-detect head injury.
他发明了一种低成本的感应器,在足球运动员可能出现严重但难以被察觉的头部损伤时发出警告.
Building robots is another way that young inventors develop their skills.
建造机器人是年轻发明家发展技能的另一种方式.
The National Robotics Challenge is open to students from elementary school on up.
全国机器人挑战赛向小学学生开放。
Kids in grades four to eight may enter the U.
四至八年级的孩子可以进入大学.
S.
师曰.
FIRST LEGO League championships.
第一届 联盟冠军.
During these competitions, teams of students build robots that can complete a series of tasks on their own.
在这些比赛中,学生团队会建造能够自行完成一系列任务的机器人.
The team that creates the most successful robot wins.
创造出最成功的机器人的团队获胜.
Robotics competitions help kids learn teamwork, collaboration, creativity, and problem solving.
机器人比赛帮助孩子们学习团队合作,合作,创造力,以及解决问题.
Inventing is an awesome activity.
发明是一种很棒的活动。
With their inventions, kids solve everyday problems and make people’s lives better and easier.
孩子们用他们的发明解决日常问题,让人们的生活更好、更容易。
Maybe you will be the next great inventor.
也许你是下一个伟大的发明家
Glossary creativity (n.)
词汇创造力(n.)
the ability to make, design, invent, or imagine new things (p.
能够制造,设计,发明或想象出新的事物(p.
15) demonstrated (v.)
15) 证明(五.
showed how something works (p.
演示一些东西是如何工作的(p.
7) design (n.)
7) 设计(n.
a plan that shows how to build, make, or assemble something (p.
说明如何建造、制造或组装某种物的计划(p.
8) device (n.)
8) 设备(n.
a thing that has been built for a purpose (p.
用于某种目的的事物(p.
4) invented (v.)
4) 发明(五.
created, designed, or built something that did not exist before (p.
创建,设计,或建造以前不存在的东西(p.
4) model (n.)
4)型号 (n.
a usually smaller version of an object made to look like the real thing (p.
一个通常较小的版本的物体被制作成像真实的东西(p.
9) patent (n.)
9) 专利(n.
a document granting the right to make money from an invention (p.
授权通过发明赚钱的文件(p.
5) prototype (n.)
5) 原型 (n.
an original form used as the model for later production (p.
一种原始形式,作为后期生产的模型(p.
9) version (n.)
9)版本 (n.
a form of something that is different from other forms of the same thing (p.
一种与其他形式相同的东西(p.
7) Fifth- and sixth-grade students watch as a robot runs through a course during the Iowa FIRST LEGO League Championship in 2010.
7) 2010年爱荷华州FIRSTLEGO联盟锦标赛期间,五等和六等学生以机器人身份观看一门课程.