We accredit the invention of the electric light to Edison.

我们把灯的发明归功于爱生。

It's almost inconceivable to write a prehistory of music because Edison invents the phonograph in 1877 and prior to that, we have no record of any sound.

写一部音乐史前史几乎是不可思议的，因为爱生在1877年发明了留声机，在那之前，我们没有任何声音记录。

Edison founded it by bringing together his electricity companies, and over the decades, General Electric grew into a massive business conglomerate dominating aviation, TV, appliances, finances, healthcare.

爱生将他的司联合起来创办了通用气司，并且在过去的几十年里，通用气发展成为一个庞大的商业集团，在航空、视、家、金融和医疗领域占据主导地位。

Edison started his own laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey.

爱生在新泽西的门洛帕克建立了自己的实验室。

ShaKenya Edison is assistant superintendent with the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

沙肯尼亚·爱生是圣巴巴拉联合学区的助理校长。

It is said that Edison invented the light.

据说是爱生发明了灯。

Monica Bentley is the administrator for Edison Academy.

莫妮卡·宾利是爱生学院的管理者。

But I think I'm more of an Edison than a Tesla.

我觉得自己更像爱生而不是特斯拉。

Edison was one of the greatest inventors of the twentieth century.

生是20世纪伟大的发明家之一。

He's got cute Nanahoshi and Edison and Silphy with him.

他和可爱的娜娜美、爱生以及希尔菲在一起。

Edison was more interested in the sale of Kinetoscopes (for roughly $1,000 apiece) to these parlors than in the films that would be run in them (which cost approximately $10 to $15 each).

爱生更感兴趣于活动影放映机（每台大约1000美元）的销售量而不是将要在其中播放的胶片（每个大约花费10到15美元）。

Although by no means was he made a partner on that first day he was however given a role and slowly over the years did end up becoming Edison's business partner and an exceptionally wealthy man.

虽然他并没有在第一天成为爱生的合伙人，但也给了他一定的职责，多年来慢慢地成长，他最终成为爱生的商业伙伴，也成为了极其富有的人。

Morgan and Edison get right to work, transforming a building in Lower Manhattan into the world's first central power station, a high-tech wonder filled with massive generators capable of lighting thousands of homes.

摩根和爱生立刻开始行动 将曼哈顿下城的一座建筑改造成世界第一座中央发站 这是一项充满发机的高科技奇迹 能够为数以千计的家庭提供照明。

Yeah, they did, but with a bit of twist. A few years ago some researchers in Paris recruited volunteers to try this. They replaced Edison's ball with a water bottle.

对，他们照做了，不过有些调整。几年前，法国巴黎的一些研究人员招募了一些志愿者来进行尝试。他们把爱生的球换成了水瓶。

In school, students memorize the dates of major inventions, along with the names of the people who made them-Edison, light bulb, 1879; Wright brothers, airplane, 1903.

学校里的学生要记住重大发明的日期以及这些发明者的姓名——爱生，灯泡，1879年; 莱特兄弟，飞机，1903年。

It is no coincidence that Edison, by far the most creative and productive scientific genius of all time. He patented 1097 patents in his career.

爱生是史上最富创造最多产的科学家这并不是巧合，他一生申请了1097项专利。

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), a trade group, warns that distributed generation could do to energy companies what the internet did to newspapers.

贸易集团爱生协会警告称，分散发对能源司的冲击就如同互联网对新闻报纸产业的冲击一样。

The invention of the lightbulb was a process that took nearly a century — and it didn't begin with Edison.

灯泡的发明是一个历时近一个世纪的过程——而且它并不是从爱生开始的。

57% of women voted for Biden, compared to 42% for President Donald Trump, according to exit polls by Edison research.

根据爱生研究司的选后民调，57%的女性投票给了拜登，42%的女性投票给了唐纳德·特朗普总统。

Which got me thinking, how many of us are too much like Monet instead of Mozart, Edison or even Corden?

这让我开始思考，我们中有多少人太像莫奈，而不是莫扎特、爱生，甚至柯登？