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Benjamin Franklin
本杰明·富蘭克林
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the USA on 17 January 1706.
本杰明·富蘭克林1706年1月17日出生于美國馬薩諸塞州的波士頓。
He had a very big family— his parents had seventeen children.
他有個大家庭——他的父母有17個孩子。
He was a man of many talents and interests. Among other things, he was a scientist and an inventor.
他是個極具天賦、興趣諸多的人。尤其，他是個科學(xué)家及發(fā)明家。
He was naturally curious about how things worked, and was always searching for ways to make them better.
他天生就對事物是如何運作的非常感興趣，總是尋求讓其更好的辦法。
In 1747, Benjamin began his experiments on electricity with some very simple equipment.
1747年，本杰明開始利用一些非常簡單的設(shè)備進行關(guān)于電流的實驗。
Although these equipments led to the discovry of some very important findings on electricity, Benjamin did not actually invent it.
盡管這些設(shè)備導(dǎo)致了一些關(guān)于電的重要發(fā)現(xiàn)，實際上，本杰明并沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)。
However, he did invent the lightning conductor, which protects buildings and ships from damage caused by lightning.
然而，他確實發(fā)現(xiàn)了避雷針，保護建筑和船只免于雷電的破壞。
Benjamin had poor vision and needed glasses.
本杰明的視力很差，需要眼鏡。
He was tired of always taking them on and off, so he decided to invent a pair of glasses that would let him see both near and far things at the same time.
他對總是戴、摘眼鏡感到厭煩，于是，他決定發(fā)明一副眼鏡，可以讓他同時看到近處和遠處的事物。
He took the two different types of glasses, cut each lens in half, and then put half of each lens into another frame.
他用了兩種不同的眼鏡，把每個鏡片分割成兩半，然后，把每個鏡片的一半放入另一個框架。
Nowadays, this type of glasses is known as bifocals.
今日，這種眼鏡就是眾所周知的雙光眼鏡。
During his life, he travelled across the Atlantic Ocean eight times.
在他的一生中，他八次旅行穿越了大西洋。
These long journeys gave him a lot of time to learn about how ships worked.
這些長長的旅行讓他有充足的時間學(xué)習(xí)了船是如何運轉(zhuǎn)的。
He developed a way to make them safer and more efficient by inventing watertight bulkheads.
他研究了一種方法，讓它們更加安全、有效，他發(fā)明了密封艙。
Other developments in safety that he made included establishing the first fire company in Philadelphia, USA, and improving the paving and lighting of the city's streets.
他做的其他關(guān)于安全方面的發(fā)展包括在美國費城建立了第一支消防隊，以及改進城市街道的路面和照明措施。
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