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Benjamin Franklin
本杰明·富蘭克林
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the USA on 17 January 1706.
本杰明·富蘭克林于1706年1月17日出生于美國的馬薩諸塞州的波士頓。
He had a very big family—his parents had seventeen children.
他有個大家庭——他的父母有17個孩子。
He was a man of many talents and interests.
他是個極具天賦、興趣諸多的人。
Among other things, he was a scientist and an inventor.
尤其，他是個科學家及發明家。
He was naturally curious about how things worked
他天生就對事物是如何運作的非常感興趣，
and was always searching for ways to make them better.
總是尋求讓其更好的辦法。
In 1747, Benjamin began his experiments on electricity with some very simple equipment.
1747年，本杰明開始利用一些非常簡單的設備進行關于電流的實驗。
Although these equipments led to the discovry of some very important findings on electricity,
盡管這些設備導致了一些關于電的重要發現，
Benjamin did not actually invent it.
實際上，本杰明并沒有發現。
However, he did invent the lightning conductor,
然而，他確實發現了避雷針，
which protects buildings and ships from damage caused by lightning.
保護建筑和船只免于雷電的破壞。
Benjamin had poor vision and needed glasses.
本杰明的視力很差，需要眼鏡。
He was tired of always taking them on and off,
他對總是戴、摘眼鏡感到厭煩，
so he decided to invent a pair of glasses that would let him see both near and far things at the same time.
于是，他決定發明一副眼鏡，可以讓他同時看到近處和遠處的事物。
He took the two different types of glasses, cut each lens in half,
他用了兩種不同的眼鏡，把每個鏡片分割成兩半，
and then put half of each lens into another frame.
然后，把每個鏡片的一半放入另一個框架。
Nowadays, this type of glasses is known as bifocals.
今日，這種眼鏡就是眾所周知的雙光眼鏡。
During his life, he travelled across the Atlantic Ocean eight times.
在他的一生中，他八次旅行穿越了大西洋。
These long journeys gave him a lot of time to learn about how ships worked.
這些長長的旅行讓他有充足的時間學習了船是如何運轉的。
He developed a way to make them safer and more efficient by inventing watertight bulkheads.
他研究了一種方法，讓它們更加安全、有效，他發明了密封艙。
Other developments in safety that he made included establishing the first fire company in Philadelphia, USA,
他做的其他關于安全方面的發展包括在美國費城建立了第一支消防隊，
and improving the paving and lighting of the city's streets.
以及改進城市街道的路面和照明措施。
