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Did Ben Franklin really discover electricity with a kite?
本.富兰克林靠一只风筝发现了电?
That's a good one.
这是个好问题 。
Everybody has heard the famous story of how pioneering experimenter–and part-time founding father–Ben Franklin tied a key to a kite string and flew the kite in a thunderstorm.
大家都听过这个著名故事:开创性实验者兼开国之父——本.富兰克林将一串钥匙系在风筝线上,在电闪雷鸣的恶劣天气下放风筝 。
The kite was hit by lightning, and zap! Franklin had discovered electricity.
风筝被闪电击中并烧毁,于是富兰克林发现了电 。
Fried Franklin
烧焦的富兰克林
Well, it makes a better story than it does an experiment.
这只是一则故事而非实验 。
The danger is that lightning is not something you want to play with, and you certainly don’t want to attract it to yourself!
该实验之所以危险是因为:闪电不是人类随意把玩的东西,当然你也不想引“电”上身吧 。
Were this story to be true, I’m afraid, the result would have been fried Franklin.
如果这个故事是真的,恐怕富兰克林早已被烧焦了 。
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