Sir Clive Sinclair -- the man who brought technology to the man in the street
克萊夫·辛科萊爵士——把科學技術帶給大眾的人
Today's programme is about Sir Clive Sinclair, a famous British businessman and inventor.
今天的節目是關于克萊夫·辛科萊爵士,一位英國著名的企業家和發明家。
Sinclair was born in Surrey, England, on 30 July 1940.
辛科萊于1940年7月30日生于英國薩里。
He spent much of his childhood with his grandfather and father, who were both engineers.
他大部分童年時光是和祖父、爸爸度過的,他們都是工程師。
As a result, he began designing and making things when he was very young.
結果,在他很小時就開始設計和做東西。
Sinclair was mostly self-educated, preferring to spend time studying by himself rather than at school with classmates.
辛科萊大多時間是自學,喜歡花時間自己學習而不是在學校和同學一起。
By the time he was ten years old,
當他10歲時,
his teachers at his primary school said that he was already so good at geometry and algebra that they could not teach him anything more, so he moved on to high school.
他的小學老師們說他已經很擅長幾何學和代數學,他們不再教他了,所以他賺取了高中。
After high school, he decided that university would teach him nothing new.
高中之后,他覺得大學不能教給他新知識。
Therefore, at the age of 17, he got a job as an assistant editor for a radio magazine that was full of diagrams of electrical circuits.
因此,他17歲時,他得到一份充滿電路圖表的電臺雜志的助理編輯工作。