避雷针发明者、美国独立宣言的作者之一，本杰明·富兰克林就是一较早实践者。1772年，他写道。

Benjamin Franklin, inventor of the lightning conductor and co-author of the American Declaration of Independence, was an early practitioner. In 1772, he wrote.

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这这就是美国独立宣言里的这句话——“所有的人生来平等，他们拥有造物主赋予的不可剥夺的权利。”——的意义之所在。

That is the significance of the assertion, in the American Declaration of Independence, that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights".

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该建筑物的高度为1776英尺，1776象征着美国《独立宣言》正式通过的那一年，这是从原设计方案中保留下来的为数不多的一项。

The symbolic height - which in feet refers to the year of the American Declaration of Independence - is one of the few features left from the initial plans.

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We see it in the American Declaration of Independence.

在美国《独立宣言》中可以看到。

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If you go back to the Declaration of Independence, it doesn't say: "We Americans believe these truths to be self-evident. " It says: "We believe these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and all men are entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happyness."

如果你回头再看看独立宣言，上面并没有说：,美国人相信,这些都是不言而喻的真理“,上面所说的是，我们相信这些真理不言而喻，从而,人人平等，所有人都拥有,人身自由，都有追求幸福的权利“

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