【正文】 nous snakes, I clearly needed to improve my design again. My third attempt repeated the second procedure. The next morning I carried in my hand a small net used for catching fish. This was in the expectation that the snakes would bite again. But monitored carefully, the snakes proved to be no trouble and all went according to plan. I collected the passive snakes and the next day we merrily released them all back into the wild. Pressed by my friends and relations, I decided to seize the opportunity to get recognition for my successful idea by sending my invention to the patent office. Only after you have had that recognition can you say that you are truly an inventor. The criteria are so strict that it is difficult to get new ideas accepted unless they are truly novel. In addition, no invention will get a patent if it is: ◎a discovery ◎a scientific idea or mathematical model ◎literature or art ◎a game or a business ◎a puter programme ◎a new animal or plant variety Nor will you receive a patent until a search has been made to find out that your product really is different from everyone else39。s a matter of waiting and hoping. You39?！拔覀冊鹤永镉袔讞l蛇，”她告訴我說，“蛇時不時地爬到屋子旁邊來，似乎是在屋子附近離胡桃樹不遠的地方安家了。這回我有機會來表現(xiàn)一下自己了。我知道我的父母是不會讓我傷害這些生物的。但是，看來只有一種毒蛇的藥粉。于是我就著手研究蛇的習性，以便能用最容易的方法來捉住他們。 經(jīng)過一番研究準備之后，我決定采用三種可能的方法：第一，鏟除蛇的棲息地；第二，用男人或女人的香水或食物把它們引進陷阱；第三，降低它們的體溫，使它們困乏，這樣就很容易把它們捉住。我買了一個制冰淇淋的不銹鋼碗。我把這個碗放進冰箱，冷凍了24個小時。 第二天造成太陽光還不太熱，我就起床了。最后再用一個大桶把碗罩住。過了兩個小時我才把桶和碗一起拿開。于是我只得調(diào)整我的計劃。第二天一早我就去看結(jié)果。但是一把它們提起來，它們就要咬我。 第三次試驗重復(fù)了上一次的程序，不過第二天早晨我的手里拿了一個捕魚用的小網(wǎng)。但是經(jīng)過仔細監(jiān)視，證明這些蛇是制造不了麻煩的，一切都按計劃進行著。 由于朋友和親戚的敦促，我決定把我這次的發(fā)明運到專利局去，請他們對我這次成功的思路給予認可。此外，你的想法如果屬于下列情況，那么你也不可能得到專利： ◎一種發(fā)現(xiàn) ◎一種科學理論或數(shù)學模式 ◎文學或藝術(shù) ◎一場游戲或一筆交易 ◎一個電腦程序 ◎一種新的動植物物種 你的產(chǎn)品要經(jīng)過仔細調(diào)查，證明它確實是與眾不同的，你才能獲得專利。如果通過了所有這些審查，你申請的專利就會在你提出申請的18個月之后公布出來?，F(xiàn)在就是等，待和期盼了。Using LanguageReadingALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Scotland, but when he was young his family moved to Boston, USA. His mother was almost entirely deaf, so Alexander became interested in helping deaf people municate and in deaf education. This interest led him to invent the microphone. He found that by pressing his lips against his mother39。s ear drum and the other to a piece of smoked glass, Bell noticed that when he spoke into the ear, the straw drew sound waves on the glass. Suddenly he had a flash of inspiration. If sound waves could be reproduced in a moving electrical current, they could be sent along a wire. In searching to improve the telegraph,Bell had invented the first telephone! Bell was fully aware of the importance of his invention and wrote to his father:The day is ing when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water or gas – and friends will talk to each other without leaving home. The patent was given in 1876, but it was not until five days later that Bell sent his first telephone message to his assistant Watson. The words have now bee famous:Mr Watson e here I want to see you. Alexander Graham Bell was not a man to rest and he interested himself in many other areas of invention. He experimented with helicopter designs and flying machines. While searching for a kite strong enough to carry a man into the air, Bell experimented putting triangles together and discovered the tetrahedron shape. Being very stable, it has proved invaluable in the design of bridges. Bell was an inventor all his life. He made his first invention at eleven and his last at seventy five. Although he is most often associated with the invention of the telephone, he was indeed a continuing searcher after practical solutions to improve the quality of everybody39。格雷厄姆格雷厄姆但在他還小的時候，他家就搬到了美國的波士頓。這一愛好促使他發(fā)明了麥克風。 他認為一個人應(yīng)該總是有好奇心理。每次當你這樣做的時候，你一定會發(fā)現(xiàn)你從未見過的東西。所有真正偉大的發(fā)現(xiàn)都是思考的結(jié)果。貝爾并非一開始就想要發(fā)明電話的，他本來想設(shè)計的東西是多路電報。貝爾想改進電報通訊方式，以便同時能發(fā)出好幾個信息。但是他發(fā)現(xiàn)這個問題很難解決。貝爾發(fā)現(xiàn)，當他對著耳朵說話的時候，這根干草就把聲波畫在被煙熏過的玻璃上。如果聲波能夠以連續(xù)運動的電波形式復(fù)制的話，那么聲波就可以沿著導(dǎo)線傳送出去了。到那時，電報線將會鋪到各家各戶，就像水和煤氣通到各家各戶一樣?！? 這項專利是1876年發(fā)布的，但是貝爾是在五天以后才跟他的助手華生通了第一次電話?！叭A生先生——到這兒來——我想見你。格雷厄姆他試驗直升飛機和飛行器。這種四面體非常穩(wěn)定，被證明是在橋梁設(shè)計中的無價之寶。他11歲時就有了第一項發(fā)明，而他的最后一項發(fā)明則是在他75歲高齡的時候。Unit Pygmalion 第四單元 皮格馬利翁ReadingPYGMALIONMAIN CHARACTERS:Eliza Doolittle (E): a poor flower girl who is ambitious to improve herselfProfessor Higgins (H): an expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person39。 who sets him a taskAct One FATEFUL MEETINGS 11 :15 pm in London, England in 1914 outside a theatre. It is pouring with rain and cab whistles are blowing in all directions. A man is hiding from the rain listening to people39。m sorry but I haven39。m afraid I39。t be troublesome, there39。s some small change. Will that be of any use to you? It39。t it? (leaves)E: (disappointed at the oute, but thinking it is better than nothing) Thank you, sir. (sees a man taking notes and feels worried) Hey! I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman. I39。m an honest girl I am! (begins to cry)H: (kindly) There! There! Who39。ou take down my words for? How do I know whether 39。ou just show me what 39。ve wrote about me!H: Here you are. (hands over the paper covered in writing)E: What39。t proper writing. I can39。 ere, cap39。m not mistaken.E: (looking confused) What if I was? What39。s quite brilliant! How did you do that, may I ask?H: Simply phonetics studied and classified from people39。s my profession and also my hobby. You can place a man by just a few remarks. I can place any spoken conversation within six miles, and even within two streets in London sometimes.CP: Let me congratulate you! But is there an ine to be made in that?H: Yes, indeed. Quite a good one. This is the age of the newly rich. People begin their working life in a poor neighbourhood of London with 80 pounds a year and end in a rich one with 100 thousand. But they betray themselves every time they open their mouths. Now once taught by me, she39。s garden party. Perhaps I could even find her a place as a lady3