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62.Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
62.《獨立宣言》是誰起草的？
Answer: (Thomas) Jefferson
答案：托馬斯·杰弗遜
Explanation: There is a funny story that shows how many Americans think of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
解釋：有一個趣聞表明許多美國人是怎么看美國第三任總統托馬斯·杰弗遜的。
One day, President John F. Kennedy (our thirty-fifth president) was in the White House, which is the building where the U.S. president lives.
有一天，肯尼迪總統（我們的第35任總統）在白宮，也就是美國總統居住的宅邸。
He was there with 49 Nobel Prize winners.
他在那接見49位諾貝爾獎得主。
(The Nobel Prize is an award given to people who have done very important work in different fields all over the world.)
（諾貝爾獎是授給世界上在不同領域內做出最重大貢獻的人的獎項。）
President Kennedy said that this was the greatest group of human knowledge and talent that had ever been together in the White House, except when Thomas Jefferson ate there alone.
肯尼迪總統表示，這是最多的天分和人類知識在白宮相聚——除了當年杰斐遜獨自在這里吃飯的時候。
This was his funny way of saying that Thomas Jefferson was a great man in American history who was good at many things, much more than other people, even a group of some of the world's smartest people!
這是他稱托馬斯·杰弗遜為美國史上的偉人的有趣方式，杰弗遜多才多藝，遠遠超過了其他人，甚至是一群世界上最聰明的人！
Thomas Jefferson is famous for many things.
托馬斯·杰弗遜以諸多事情而聞名。
He was the second vice-president and the third president of the United States, but he is even better known for having written the Declaration of Independence, or the letter that was written to let Great Britain know that its colonies had become the United States, an independent country.
他是美國的第二任副總統和第三任總統，但他更為知名的是起草了《獨立宣言》，或者說是讓大不列顛知道其殖民地已成為美國——一個獨立的國家的文告。
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