Few people can stand for the spirit of earlier America as much as Benjamin Franklin.
很少有人能像本杰明·富兰克林那样代表早期美国精神。
In American history, Benjamin Franklin was a scientist, inventor and writer as well as a leader of the American Revolution.
在美国历史上，本杰明·富兰克林是一位科学家、发明家和作家，同时也是美国革命的领袖。
Benjamin Franklin produced some of his best writings at the age of 84, and Pablo Picasso put brush to canvas right through his eighties.
本杰明·富兰克林在84岁时创作了一些最好的作品，巴勃罗·毕加索直到80多岁还在画布上作画。
In 1752, Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a kite and flew it in a storm to find out that lightning was a form of electricity.
1752年，本杰明·富兰克林将一把钥匙系在风筝上，在暴风雨中放飞，他发现了闪电是电的一种形式。
There's Benjamin Franklin, the very model of the self-educated, self-made man, who rose from modest origins to become a well-known scientist, philosopher, and statesman.
本杰明·富兰克林是自学成才、自力更生的典范；他出身寒微，后来成为著名的科学家、哲学家和政治家。
"In THIS world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," mused Benjamin Franklin.
本杰明·富兰克林曾沉思，“在这个世界上，除了死亡和税收，没有什么是确定无疑的”。
"The one-liner, he says, was" invented, or at any rate brought to the forefront, by Benjamin Franklin.
他认为单行短笑话是“由本杰明·富兰克林所创造，或者说是由他推向大众。”
Benjamin Franklin wondered about lightning he combined his curiosity with imagination and carried out his well-known experiment to show that lightning and an electric spark are the same thing.
本杰明·富兰克林不明白闪电是怎么回事。他把这种好奇加上了自己的想像，进行了那个著名的实验，证明了闪电与电火花是一个原理。
Benjamin Franklin built a set of glass bottles that stored electricity and released it all at once; he called it a battery because, like guns, the bottles fired simultaneously.
富兰克林堆了一堆玻璃瓶以储存电能并在瞬间释放，他之所以称之为电池，是因为这些瓶子像抢一样立马就燃烧起来。
George Washington called gambling "the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief", but Benjamin Franklin organised a lottery in Philadelphia in 1746.
乔治·华盛顿称博彩业为“贪婪的孩子，邪恶的兄弟，伤痛的父亲”，而本杰明·富兰克林1746年在费城组织了彩票业。
Such eminent figures as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson made clear their belief that we can only experience true success and happiness by making character the guideline of our lives.
本杰明•富兰克林和托马斯•杰斐逊等杰出人物很清楚地表明了他们的看法：只有让品德成为我们的指南，才能体验真正的成功与幸福。
Benjamin Franklin is regarded as one of the wisest and most practical men in history.
本杰明·富兰克林被认为是历史上最有智慧并最为务实的人之一。
So Benjamin Franklin, John Jay and John Adams were able to exploit the rivalry of the European powers to acquire this huge territory without either conquest or migration.
因此，本杰明•富兰克林、约翰•杰伊和约翰•亚当斯能够利用欧洲列强纷争在既未动一枪一卒也没有移居一人的情况下获得这一大片领土。
About 150 years later, Benjamin Franklin reportedly used a kite to experiment with one of the earliest-known electrical capacitors.
大约又过了150年，本杰明·富兰克林利用风筝‘偷电’，这是已知最早的有关电容器的实验。
If you are do, you cannot join the likes of Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci in the ranks of the sleepless elite.
如果是这样，你就不能加入本杰明·富兰克林和李奥纳多·达芬奇的“无眠分子”行列。
Benjamin Franklin imbued in us the zeal to work and encouraged the inclination for self-improvement.
我们对工作的热情以及自我改善的倾向来自本杰明·富兰克林。
More tuned towards the serious reader, there are some literary gems to be found in Wikisource. You might like to try out ‘The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin’ or Abraham Lincoln’s speeches.
大多面向严肃的读者，在维基文库中有一些文学珍宝可寻，你可以尝试“本杰明富兰克林传”或者“亚伯拉罕林肯演讲”。
"Dost thou love life?" Benjamin Franklin once said.
本杰明·富兰克林曾经说过：“你热爱生命吗？”
In the new note, Benjamin Franklin is joined by a shiny Liberty Bell inside an inkwell, which seems to disappear as you tilt the note.
在新版纸钞中，本杰明·富兰克林的头像与嵌入油墨中闪亮的自由钟相连，只要将其稍加倾斜，自由钟就会消失。
Benjamin Franklin once heckled, "A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats." Founding Father and stand-up comedian.
制宪元勋和喜剧演员本杰明·富兰克林曾经说，“夹在两个律师之间的老百姓就像是夹在两只猫之间的鱼。”
This was also a central theme in two previous biographies by Isaacson, about Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.
这也是沃尔特·艾萨克森之前写的富兰克林传和爱因斯坦传的核心主题。
As a biographer of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Mr. Isaacson knows how to explicate and celebrate genius: revered, long-dead genius.
作为爱因斯坦传与本杰明·富兰克林传的作者，艾萨克森懂得如何著述，颂扬那些备受崇敬，与世长辞的天才们。
The committee, consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, pressed on Jefferson the task of writing their report.
这一起草委员会由托马斯·杰佛逊、约翰·亚当斯、本杰明·富兰克林、罗杰·谢尔曼和罗伯特- R -来温斯顿组成，并由杰佛逊担当主笔。
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。
Jobs is working on the book with Aspen Institute President and Chief Executive Walter Isaacson, who's previously written biographies on Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin.
本书由乔布斯与阿斯本研究总裁兼行政总裁沃尔特·艾萨克森合作完成。艾萨克森此前曾撰写了爱因斯坦与富兰克林的传记。
A cape-wearing, lantern-carrying guide points out "haunted" graveyards (St. Peter's Cemetery) and reports sightings of Benjamin Franklin, who's said to roam the city's streets.
一个披着磨损的披风、提着灯的向导指向一片闹鬼的墓地（圣彼得的墓地）和本杰明-富兰克林视线的记录，传说他游荡在城市的街道上。
A cape-wearing, lantern-carrying guide points out "haunted" graveyards (St. Peter's Cemetery) and reports sightings of Benjamin Franklin, who's said to roam the city's streets.
一个披着磨损的披风、提着灯的向导指向一片闹鬼的墓地（圣彼得的墓地）和本杰明-富兰克林视线的记录，传说他游荡在城市的街道上。
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