1、Thomas Edison said, “Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
托馬斯.愛迪生說：“給我引見一個(gè)完全滿意的人來，而我就能給你找出一個(gè)失敗?！?/p>

2、Thomas Edison was not the sole inventor of the incandescent light bulb— nor was he the first.
托馬斯·愛迪生并非白熾燈的唯一發(fā)明者，也不是首個(gè)發(fā)明者。

3、Thomas Edison was a famous inventor.
托馬斯·愛迪生是著名的發(fā)明家。

4、Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
托馬斯·愛迪生發(fā)明了電燈泡。

5、Thomas Edison developed the telephone invented by Bell, an American.
托馬斯·愛迪生改進(jìn)了美國(guó)人貝爾發(fā)明的電話。

6、1869 - Thomas Edison of Boston, Massachusetts, receives a patent for his electric voting machine.
1869年的今天，馬薩諸塞州波士頓市的托馬斯·愛迪生接到了電子投票器的專利權(quán)。

7、1902 - a United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
1902年的今天，美國(guó)地方法院判定托馬斯·愛迪生并沒有發(fā)明電影攝像機(jī)。

8、One post even calls Apple's former boss “the Thomas Edison of this century”.
其中一份甚至稱蘋果的前老板是“本世紀(jì)的愛迪生”。

9、Thomas Edison was one of the greatest inventors in the world.
愛迪生是世界上最偉大的發(fā)明家之一。

10、Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he succeeded in inventing the first electric lamp.
托馬斯·愛迪生在失敗了數(shù)千次之后才成功地發(fā)明了第一盞電燈。

11、That is how Thomas Edison described his laborious attempts to perfect the incandescent light bulb.
那是托馬斯·愛迪生(Thomas Edison)所描述的自己如何費(fèi)盡心思來讓白熾燈泡更加完美。

12、By the time he died in 1966, Walt Disney was as famous as Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers.
到他1966年去世的時(shí)候，華特·迪士尼已經(jīng)和托馬斯·愛迪生和萊特兄弟一樣有名了。

13、1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.
1877年的今天，托馬斯·愛迪生宣布發(fā)明了留聲機(jī)，一種能記錄。

14、Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he succeeded in producing the first electric lamp.
托馬斯?愛迪生就是在失敗了數(shù)千次之后才成功地發(fā)明了第一盞電燈。

15、1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1876年的今天，托馬斯·愛迪生獲得油印機(jī)的專利權(quán)。

16、Thomas Edison was a great name in science
托瑪斯·愛迪生是個(gè)科學(xué)偉人。

17、Statue of Thomas Edison in Dearborn, Michigan.
美國(guó)密西根州德保的愛迪生雕塑。

18、Thomas Edison proclaimed "Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
湯姆斯·愛迪生說過，“這里沒有什么規(guī)律可言，我們是為了完成某事而來”。

19、The eponymous shape of the product Thomas Edison invented in 1879 was no accident.
托馬斯·愛迪生1879年發(fā)明的燈泡外形并不是巧合。

20、We're Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers and George Washington Carver.
我們是托馬斯?愛迪生、懷特兄弟、喬治?華盛頓?卡弗。