亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔

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亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔

湖北省葛洲坝高中 袁芳供稿

中文名：亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔

外文名：Alexander Graham Bell

国籍：美国

出生日期：1847年3月3日

逝世日期：1922年8月2日

职业：学者发明家、企业家

毕业院校：伦敦大学；

爱丁堡皇家高等学校

信仰：基督教

编者注

亚历山大·贝尔是一位美国发明家和企业家。他获得了世界上第一台可用的电话机的专利权（发明者为意大利人安东尼奥·梅乌奇），创建了贝尔电话公司（AT&T公司的前身）。他被世界誉为“电话之父”。

Alexander Graham Bell is an American inventor and Entrepreneur.He was born in Edinburgh,Scotland on March 3rd,1847.亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔是一位美国发明家和企业家。1847年3月3日出生于英国苏格兰的爱丁堡。

His father is an expert in remedying speaking and teaching the deaf.And his grandfather is a Philanthropist,always showing sympathy to the deaf and dumb.And Bell’s mother herself is a deaf and dumb.Growing up in such surroundings,he had strong willing to achieve in such field.贝尔的父亲是一位矫正说话、教授聋人的专家。贝尔的祖父是个慈善家，一直都很同情聋哑的残障者。贝尔的母亲也是一位聋哑人。贝尔就在这种环境下耳濡目染地长大，所以心中一直期望将来在这方面能有所建树。

In 1870,because of poor health,he migrated to Canada.It was not long before his success in teaching the deaf to speak brought him to the attention of a wealthy merchant in Boston who had a deaf daughter,Mabel.Would Mr.Bell please teach Mabel how to speak?Yes,he would.And he did.Then they fell in love.1870年，他由于身体不好移居加拿大。不久之后，他就以成功地教会耳聋者说话而引起波士顿一位富商的注意。这位商人有个耳聋的女儿梅布尔。可否请贝尔先生教梅布尔说话呢?是的，他愿意。而且他去做了，然后他们相爱了。

It was she who inspired him through all the exhausting experiments,and he developed the then remarkable instrument.是梅布尔鼓舞他进行了所有那些使人精疲力竭的实验，使他得以研制出当时很了不起的一种工具。

The first voice to travel over a wire was even a surprise for its inventor.Alexander Graham Bell.He was experimenting in his laboratory late one night,and quite by accident he succeeded in transmitting a message to his assistant in the next room.What Mr.Bell could not know at the time was that that night in 1876 would mark the start of a revolution in communications.通过电线传送的第一个声音，甚至使它的发明人亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔都感到惊讶。一天深夜，贝尔正在实验室里做实验，非常偶然地，他成功地向在隔壁房间里的助手传递了一个口信。贝尔先生当时无法知道的是，1876年的那个夜晚将标志着通信革命的开始。

A year later,in 1877,he and Mabel were married.He later became an American citizen.Alexander Graham Bell died in 1922,Mabel five months later.She loved him that much.His name is likely to live as long as man recalls history.After all,there is this constant reminder of how he brought the human family into closer touch.一年之后，1877年，他同梅布尔结为夫妻，他后来成为美国公民。亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔死于1922年，梅布尔在他去世5个月后也死了，因为她太爱贝尔了。贝尔的名字很可能会像人类记忆历史那样永世长存。毕竟有这样一件物品，它经常提醒人们，是贝尔使人类大家庭彼此得以保持更密切的联系。