英语_阅读_Be an inventor

Be an inventor!
做一名发明家吧！

The biggest secret about inventing is that anybody can do it!
关于发明最大的秘密是，任何人都可以做到！

Perhaps this sounds crazy, but it’s true.
也许这听起来很疯狂，但这是真的。

Maybe you have the wrong idea about inventing, so read on to discover the truth.
也许你对发明有错误的看法，所以请继续读下去，来发现真相。

Wrong idea number 1: An invention has to be something completely new.
错误观念一：一项发明必须是完全全新的东西。

Well, inventing means creating something “new”, but the idea could come from something that already exists.
事实上，发明意味着创造“新的”事物，但想法可能来自已经存在的东西。

The Wright brothers, for example, got the idea for building a “flying machine” from watching birds.
例如，莱特兄弟通过观察鸟类获得了建造“飞行机器”的灵感。

Wrong idea number 2: Inventors are born, not made.
错误观念二：发明家是天生的，而不是后天培养的。

There are a lot of factors (因素) that make innovation possible.
有许多因素使创新成为可能。

Take Mozart, for example.
以莫扎特为例。

He was born with a unique talent for musical composition.
他天生就具有独特的音乐创作天赋。

But other factors were also important for his creativity.
但其他因素对他的创造力同样重要。

His father was a music teacher, and Mozart practised for hours every day, from the time he was in kindergarten.
他的父亲是一名音乐教师，而莫扎特从上幼儿园起每天都会练习数小时。

Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was “99% hard work and 1% inspiration”!
托马斯·爱迪生曾说，成为一名发明家是“99%的努力加1%的灵感”！

Very successful creators don’t give up when they get something wrong.
非常成功的创造者在犯错时不会放弃。

As one inventor said, “A failure is the right answer to the wrong question!”
正如一位发明家所说：“失败是对错误问题的正确答案！”

Wrong idea number 3: Inventors are always old people.
错误观念三：发明家总是年纪很大的人。

Don’t believe that you can’t invent something when you are young.
不要认为你年轻就不能发明东西。

Here is an example of a young inventor:
这里有一个年轻发明家的例子：

Louis Braille went blind when he was a child.
路易·布莱叶在小时候失明了。

When he was 15, he invented a system of reading and writing for blind people that is still used in most countries today.
在他15岁时，他发明了一种供盲人阅读和书写的系统，这种系统至今仍在大多数国家使用。
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Be an inventor!

The biggest secret about inventing is that anybody can do it! Perhaps this sounds crazy, but it’s true. Maybe you have the wrong idea about inventing, so read on to discover the truth.

Wrong idea number 1: An invention has to be something completely new.
Well, inventing means creating something “new”, but the idea could come from something that already exists. The Wright brothers, for example, got the idea for building a “flying machine” from watching birds.

Wrong idea number 2: Inventors are born, not made.
There are a lot of factors (因素) that make innovation possible. Take Mozart, for example. He was born with a unique talent for musical composition. But other factors were also important for his creativity. His father was a music teacher, and Mozart practised for hours every day, from the time he was in kindergarten.

Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was “99% hard work and 1% inspiration”! Very successful creators don’t give up when they get something wrong. As one inventor said, “A failure is the right answer to the wrong question!”

Wrong idea number 3: Inventors are always old people.
Don’t believe that you can’t invent something when you are young. Here is an example of a young inventor: Louis Braille went blind when he was a child. When he was 15, he invented a system of reading and writing for blind people that is still used in most countries today.