爱迪生

Thomas Edison's first invention was the automatic telegraph repeater.

电报自动转发器是托马斯·爱迪生的第一个发明。

That ended the joke, and Edison won his job, as well as the title of fastest telegraph operator in the Western Union Company.

这就结束了这场玩笑，爱迪生也赢得了他的职位，同时还赢得了西联电讯公司最快电报员的称号。

That ended the joke , and edison won his job, as weil as the title of fastest telegraph operator in the Western Union Company

这就结束了这场玩笑，爱迪生也赢得了他的职位，同时还赢得了西联电讯公司最快电报员的称号。

His grateful father, who was a trained telegraph operator, offered to teach fifteen-year-old Tom to become an operator too.

到了1862年的冬天，爱迪生已经把铁路站长能教给他的东西全部学到了手，并返回波特·休伦，成了这个城镇的电报员。

The financial means to remain independent, Thomas Edison was compelled to seek employment as a night telegraph operator.

详解：过去分词表示原因，作状语。句意为：失去了保持独立经济来源，爱迪生不得不当夜间电报员。

Edison went to Boston's where he had been promised work as a telegraph operator, mainly because of the neat handwriting in his letter of application, When he appeared in that city, he looked so untidy and strange that the superintendent asked him to return later in the day to take a test in telegraphy, with the idea of making the test so difficult that the young man could not possibly pass it, As the rapid message came in, Edison realized clerks in the station were playing a joke on him.

爱迪生去到了波士顿，在那里有人答应给他电报员的工作，主要因为他的求职信中字迹写得工整。当他在波士顿露面时，他是如此的衣冠不整，怪里怪气，以致主管人叫他当天晚些时候去参加电报技术的考试，目的是要故意出难题，使这位青年考不及格。

In the same year that Edison's steam-driven generators were inaugurated, a waterwheel-driven generator was installed in Appleton, Wisconsin.

同年，爱迪生的蒸汽驱动发电机落成，一台由水轮驱动的发电机安装在Wisconsin的Appleton。

Edison carefully fixed a sheet of tin foil around the cylinder.

爱迪生小心翼翼地给这个圆柱体包裹上一层锡箔。

To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments.

为了解决以上的困难，电影发行公司开办了为音乐伴奏印制提示单的业务。例如1909年爱迪生公

So did the Edison gramophones, its voice were first heard by visitors in World Expo.

还有爱迪生发明的留声机，也是在世博会上第一次让人们听到了从留声机里发出的声音。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。