American schoolchildren are raised on stories about inventors such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison.

伴随美国学童成长的是本杰明·富兰克林和托马斯·爱迪生这类发明家的故事。

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We all know people such as Thomas Edison, and we know how many times made mistake even big mistakes and we also know what the final result was: he became that Thomas Edison that we now know.

我们所有人都知道像托马斯·爱迪生这样的人，我们知道犯了多少个错误，甚至是大的错误，我们还知道最终结果是：他成为了我们现在知道的托马斯·爱迪生。

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Such men as Edison, Einstein and Lincoln are great men.

像爱迪生、爱因斯坦和林肯这样的人都是伟人。

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Barnes constructed a 30-room inn he named Casa Ybel, which lured wealthy Americans such as Thomas Edison and Henry Ford down the coast for great fishing, eternally sunny weather and shell collecting.

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It was also blessedly far from the reach of east-coast patent holders such as Thomas Edison, who would defend his camera technology with legal challenges and, if the mood took him, with hired goons wielding baseball bats.

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Big mistake No. 1: Under the 1996 deregulation measure, investor-owned utilities such as Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric were required to sell most of their power generating plants to other private companies, and to become buyers of wholesale electric power.

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