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① 403、英語小故事（中英對照）「尼古拉·特斯拉」

Nikola Tesla, who was a trained electrical and mechanical（機電） engineer, was one of the weighty inventors of the 20th century.

尼古拉·特斯拉是一位訓練有素的機電工程師，也是20世紀最重要的發明家之一。

Eventually holding over 700 patents, Tesla worked in a number of fields, including electricity, robotics, radar, and wireless transmission of energy.

特斯拉最終擁有超過700項專利，其工作涉及多個領域，包括電力、機器人、雷達和無線能量傳輸。

Tesla's discoveries laid the groundwork（基礎） for many of the technological advances of the 20th century.

特斯拉的發現為20世紀的許多技術發展奠定了基礎。

Tesla was born in Smiljan, Croatia. He owed his strong desire for invention to his mother, an inventive homemaker who created appliances（電器） such as a mechanical eggbeater to help with the home and farm.

特斯拉出生在克羅埃西亞的史密里安。他對發明的強烈渴望歸功於他的母親。他的母親是一位富有創造力的家庭主婦，她發明了很多家用電器來幫助打理家務和農場，比如打蛋器。

Tesla studied at the University of Prague, where he studied mechanical and electrical engineering.

特斯拉在布拉格大學讀書，學習機械和電氣工程。

In 1882, 24-year-old Tesla was working for the Central Telephone Exchange in Budapest when the idea for a rotating（旋轉） magnetic field flashed through his mind.

1882年，24歲的特斯拉在布達佩斯中央電話局工作時，當時他腦子里突然閃過一個關於旋轉磁場的想法。

Tesla was determined to turn his idea into reality but he was unable to find support for it in Budapest; thus, Tesla moved to New York in 1884 and introced himself to Thomas Edison through a letter of recommendation.

特斯拉決心把他的想法變成現實，但他在布達佩斯找不到支持他做這件事的人；因此，特斯拉於1884年搬到了紐約，通過一封推薦信向托馬斯·愛迪生介紹了自己。

Edison hired Tesla at fourteen dollars per week plus a $50,000 bonus if Tesla could improve Edison's electric lighting system.

愛迪生以每周14美元的工資僱用了特斯拉，如果特斯拉能改進愛迪生的電力照明系統的話，他還可以得到5萬美元的獎金。

Although Tesla and Edison respected one another, Tesla challenged Edison's claim that current could only flow in one direction. Tesla claimed that energy could change direction.

盡管特斯拉和愛迪生彼此尊重，但特斯拉對愛迪生關於電流只能單向流動的觀點提出了質疑。特斯拉聲稱，能量可以改變電流流動方向。

Since Edison didn't like Tesla's idea of alternating current（交流電）, he refused to award Tesla the bonus, saying the offer of a bonus had been a joke and that Tesla didn't understand American humor.

由於愛迪生不喜歡特斯拉的交流電的想法，他拒絕給特斯拉獎金，說給他獎金是個玩笑，特斯拉不懂美國人的幽默。

In 1888, Tesla quit working for Thomas Edison and went to work for Westinghouse so that he could develop the alternating current system.

1888年，特斯拉辭去了托馬斯·愛迪生的工作，轉到西屋電氣工作，以便開發交流電系統。

On January 7, 1943, Tesla died at the age of 86 in his bed at the Hotel New Yorker.

1943年1月7日，特斯拉在紐約客酒店的床上去世，享年86歲。

Tesla, who had never married, had spent his life creating, inventing, and discovering.

特斯拉終身未婚，他用一生進行創造、發明與發現。