The Scottish-born scientist and engineer Alexander Graham Bell is famous for his invention of the telephone. In 1876, the United States government approved a patent on Bell’s telephone. The move gave him the exclusive right to the technology. So no one else could manufacture or sell his invention for a number of years.
英格兰出生的科学家和工程师亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔（Alexander Graham Bell）因发明电话而闻名。1876年，美国政府批准了贝尔的电话专利，这让他获得了该技术的专有权，因此多年来没有人可以制造或销售他的这项发明。
On today’s program, we talk about popular sayings, called proverbs. Many you will hear today come from a very famous person in American history -- Benjamin Franklin.
In American history, Benjamin Franklin was famous for his proverbs. Franklin lived in the 1700s. He was a leader of the American Revolution against English rule. He was also a scientist, inventor and writer.
A famous one is MIT. That is short for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Another major university is UCLA. Almost no one ever says its real name, the University of California at Los Angeles. That takes way too long!
英格兰出生的科学家和工程师亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔（Alexander Graham Bell）因发明电话而闻名。1876年，美国政府批准了贝尔的电话专利，这让他获得了该技术的专有权，因此多年来没有人可以制造或销售他的这项发明。
The Scottish-born scientist and engineer Alexander Graham Bell is famous for his invention of the telephone. In 1876, the United States government approved a patent on Bell’s telephone. The move gave him the exclusive right to the technology. So no one else could manufacture or sell his invention for a number of years.
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在今天的节目中我们来讨论谚语，今天你将听到的很多谚语都来自美国历史上的一位名人—本杰明·富兰克林。
On today’s program, we talk about popular sayings, called proverbs. Many you will hear today come from a very famous person in American history -- Benjamin Franklin.
In American history, Benjamin Franklin was famous for his proverbs. Franklin lived in the 1700s. He was a leader of the American Revolution against English rule. He was also a scientist, inventor and writer.
A famous one is MIT. That is short for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Another major university is UCLA. Almost no one ever says its real name, the University of California at Los Angeles. That takes way too long!
