There’s a reason
he was called the wizard愛迪生之所以會被稱為奇才，其來有自
Have you ever wondered which great minds helped give us the electric
light as we know it today? If Thomas Edison (1847-1931) was one of your
guesses, you were right! But that wasn’t the only thing he worked on.
Light
During his lifetime Edison patented more than 1,000 inventions. Let’s
first take a look at one of his most famous ones. Did you know that Edison’s
improvement of the light bulb almost never happened? Needing to keep the carbon
from burning up in order to make the bulb work, he sat in his lab wondering
what to do.
Finally looking up, he saw he had unconsciously rolled some lampblack
into a thin thread. He decided to roll the carbon into the same shape. Using
this carbon filament, his bulb burned for about 15 hours.
Visual
Edison was probably one of the first movie fans ever. After seeing
another inventor’s machine showing animals in motion. Edison likewise became
interested in moving pictures. He began working on his own motion picture
invention. By 1892, Edison and photographer W.K.L. Dickson created a motion
picture camera and a viewing implement.
lampblack
motion
likewise
implement 工具、器具
【Grammar on the go】
Have you ever wondered which great minds helped give us the electric
light as we know it today?
as we know it today
àlike the ones we
use or are familiar with today
The bicycle as we know it today didn’t become popular until half a
century after its invention.
Ever since 1700, the piano went through numerous changes to become
western music’s most popular instrument as we know it today.
【Chat room】
burn up /burn out
burn up 字面上是燃燒、燒盡的意思
今天的課文中：
keep the carbon from burning up 防止碳燃燒起來
burn up延伸的意思是：使某人發怒
You really burn me up! I’m very angry at you!
burn out精疲力盡
因為工作過度或工作壓力而身心俱疲
Rhonda is completely burned out at her job.
Rhonda對她的工作已經非常厭倦了
burn the midnight oil 燃燒午夜的油燈：開夜車、挑燈夜戰
【Key word】
patent 取得某項東西的專利權v.
The scientist patented his newly developed technology of turning salt
water into drinking water. 這位科學家把他新發展的將鹽水轉變為飲用水的科技申請了專利
patent 專利、專利權n.
The patent application of this new product is still in process.
這個新產品的專利申請還在進行中
unconsciously 不知不覺地、未意識到地
He was unconsciously biting his fingernails.他下意識地咬他自己的指甲
The victim was beat by the robbers until he lay unconsciously in the
dirt.
這位受害者被搶匪打到失去意識躺在地上。
likewise 也、同樣地、照樣地
The leading actor of the movie did a marvelous job, and the leading
actress did likewise. 這部電影的男主角表現優異，女主角也不遜色
Josh used to complain that his boss was too strict. Likewise, his employees
now complain about him.
Josh以前抱怨他的老闆對他很嚴格，現在他的員工也同樣地抱怨他。
“I’m going home now.” “Likewise.”
“我要回家了” “我也是”
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