The Tenacious Inventor

顽强的发明家

A young student of meteorology was having a difficult time with an experiment. He was attempting to duplicate lightning in clouds. He had made a device that could simulate lightning. It worked by releasing an electromagnetic pulse into the cloud. This pulse, in turn, stimulated the electrons in the cloud's particles. Then the electrons produced lightning.

一个年轻的气象学学生在做实验时遇到了困难。他试图在云中复制闪电。他制造了一个能模拟闪电的装置，工作原理是向云中释放电磁脉冲。这个脉冲反过来又刺激了云粒子中的电子。然后电子产生了闪电。

But his meteorological experiment had a major defect. He couldn't get the device into the sky.

但他的气象实验有一个很大的缺陷，那就是他无法将设备发射到空中。

He had tied it to balloons, but they had burst. He had shot the device from a cannon, but the force of the cannon had damaged it.

他把它系在气球上，但气球破了。他是用大炮发射的，但是大炮的威力把它弄坏了。

You should give up, his friends told him. "You'll never get that thing into the air."

“你放弃吧，”他的朋友告诉他。“你永远不可能把它送上天的。”

But his friends' criticisms only spurred him to try again.The student was very innovative, and at last, he thought that he had an innovation that would work. He attached wings to the device, and on one dreary day, when clouds blocked the light of the sun, he started his experiment anew.

但朋友们的批评只会刺激他再试一次。这个学生很有创新精神，最后，他认为他的创新是可行的。他给这个装置插上了翅膀，在一个阴沉的日子里，当乌云遮住了阳光，他又开始了他的实验。

He placed the device on a rocket and launched it into the sky. The propulsion of the rocket carried the device high into the air. The rocket accelerated into the clouds and then released the device. It glided on its wings through the clouds, and when it penetrated the center of a large black cloud, it emitted the electromagnetic pulse. And just as he had predicted, lightning shot from the cloud!

他把这个装置放在火箭上，然后把它发射到空中。火箭的推进力把装置带到了高空。火箭加速飞入云层，然后释放了装置。它的翅膀滑过云层，当它穿过一个大的黑云中心时，它发出电磁脉冲。正如他所预言的，闪电从云中射出！

He called his professors, and the next day they came to watch. He successfully duplicated the experiment. His teachers were extremely impressed and called the student and his invention ingenious.

他打电话给他的教授，第二天他们都赶来看他的实验。他成功地再做了一次这个实验。他的老师们对此印象深刻，称他和他的发明很有独创性。

The student was given many awards and became a famous inventor. He had not given up. He had remained tenacious and succeeded.

这个学生获得了很多奖项，成为了一个著名的发明家。他没有放弃，坚持不懈，最终成功了。

单词表

accelerate v. 加速

anew adv. 重新

defect n. 缺点

dreary adj.沉闷的

duplicate v. 复制

electromagnetic adj.电磁的

electron n. 电子

glide v. 滑翔

ingenious adj.有独创性的

innovation n. 创新

innovative adj.革新的

launch v. 发射

meteorological adj.气象的

meteorology n. 气象学

penetrate v. 渗透

propulsion n. 推进

simulate v. 模仿

spur v. 激励

stimulate v. 刺激

tenacious adj.顽强的

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