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。

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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。

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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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Some of the more prominent founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, were vocal about their opposition to organized religion, while other notable founders, like Patrick Henry, were strong proponents of traditional religion.

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In the eighteenth century of Benjamin Franklin and the nineteenth century of Thomas Edison, an educated person could feel some familiarity with science and even dabble in it as an amateur.

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It was brought over by the reformed Calvinists in the 1600s, made secular and practical by Benjamin Franklin, expressed as the "Pursuit of Happiness" by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, noticed by Alexis de Tocqueville, defined by Max Weber and written into the popular culture by Horatio Alger and others.

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