edison是什么意思

双语例句

(1)Thomas Edison is best known as the man who invented the light bulb.

托马斯·爱迪生以发明电灯的人而广为人知。

(2)When Thomas Edison produced the first commercial light bulb, it was love at first light!

爱迪生制作出第一个灯泡时，你可以说这是一亮钟情！

(3)Called the "War of the Currents," Edison championed direct current and Tesla alternating current.

这场竞争被称为“电流之战”，爱迪生倡导直流电，而特斯拉倡导交流电。

(4)The basic design changed little from that patented by Edison more than 100 years ago.

这个主要设计与100多年前爱迪生取得专利的设计相比没什么变化。

(5)I did grow up in Edison, New Jersey.

我确实是在新泽西州的爱迪生市长大的。

(6)Edison failed 10,000 times before he perfected the light bulb.

爱迪生失败了一万次后才成功做出了灯泡。

(7)Great men have often risen from poverty — Lincoln and Edison, for example.

大人物常常出身贫寒，例如林肯和爱迪生。

(8)Many of the things we now benefit from would not be around but for Thomas Edison.

要不是爱迪生的发明，今天我们身边享用的很多东西都将不会存在。

释义

Thomas (Alva) (1847—1931), American inventor. He took out the first of more than a thousand patents at the age of 21. His inventions include automatic telegraph systems, the carbon microphone for telephones, the phonograph, and the carbon filament lamp.

爱迪生，托马斯（·阿尔瓦）（１８４７—１９３１， 美国发明家；从２１岁获得第一次专利开始，他一生共取得１，０００多项发明专利；他的发明包括自动电报系统、炭粒话筒、留声机和碳丝灯泡等）。

(1)Edison said, "where this thing is going to stop, Lord only knows."

爱迪生说：什么时候可以不用电，只有上帝知道。《America Revealed》《透视美国》

(2)And they're still burning the same ancient fuel edison turned to back in the 19th century.

最早使用的煤，用煤发电19世纪，爱迪生发明了电。《America Revealed》《透视美国》

(3)But unlike Edison, we've got some very impressive technology these days to help with the search.

但和爱迪生不同的是，如今我们有了很专业的技术以帮助寻找能源。《America Revealed》《透视美国》

(4)You know what, you like to think that you're just like Tesla, but the truth is you're exactly like Edison.

你知道吗，你喜欢把自己比作特斯拉，但事实就是，你跟爱迪生一模一样。《The Big Bang Theory Season 11》《生活大爆炸 第十一季》

(5)On September 4, 1882, visionary inventor Thomas Edison switched on America's first central power plant, delivering electricity to 400 electric bulbs in less than one square mile of the city.

1882年9月4日，发明家托马斯·爱迪生，启动了美国第一个发电站，给400个电灯供电，供电面积不到1平方英里。《America Revealed》《透视美国》

(6)In 1931, Thomas Edison confided to his friend, Henry Ford, "we are like tenant farmers, chopping down the fence around our house for fuel, when we should be using nature's inexhaustible sources of energy, sun, wind, and tide."

1931年，托马斯·爱迪生悄悄告诉他的朋友亨利·福特"，我们就像土地租用人，当我们需要时，砍我们房子周边的篱笆做燃料，自然就是取之不尽用之不竭的能源，太阳，风和潮水"。《America Revealed》《透视美国》