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The entire scientific community or much of it was working on that, on that issue, with no success, Thomas Edison being no exception.
整個科學(xué)界都在研究這一課題，但一無所獲，愛迪生也不例外
A journalist from one of the local papers came to Thomas Edison to interview.
當(dāng)?shù)貓蠹埖囊幻浾咔叭ゲ稍L愛迪生
He was already famous by then, he invented many things.
他當(dāng)時已經(jīng)非常有名了，發(fā)明了很多東西
And they were talking about various things and then they got to talk about the light bulb.
他們談了各種話題，然后開始講燈泡問題
And the journalist said to Edison, "Mr. Edison, you've been working on the light bulb for many years.
那個記者對愛迪生說：“愛迪生先生您致力于燈泡研究許多年了
The rest of the scientific community has been working on it, to no avail."
整個科學(xué)界都在進行相同研究，但毫無所獲”
Now at that point Thomas Edison had conducted 5000 experiments,
當(dāng)時愛迪生已經(jīng)進行了5000次實驗
so, and the journalist knew that so he told Edison, "Mr. Edison, you've conducted 5000 experiments, and you failed 5000 times. Give it up."
這位記者也知道，于是他對愛迪生說：“愛迪生先生，您已經(jīng)進行了5000次實驗，失敗了5000次，放棄吧”
Now Thomas Edison, some of you may know was also hard of hearing, in fact one of his patents was a hearing aid.
你們可能知道，愛迪生聽力不好，事實上，他有一項專利就是助聽器
So he said to the journalist, " Excuse me, what did you say?"
所以他對記者說"你說什么
The journalist said, "well, I said you failed 5000 times, give it up."
那個記者重復(fù)：“我說你失敗了5000次，放棄吧”
So Edison responded, "I didn't fail 5000 times.
愛迪生回答"我沒有失敗5000次
I succeeded 5000 times.
是成功了5000次
I succeeded in showing what doesn't work."
我成功證明了哪些方法行不通
