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Unit 3 Make it happen!
1 Great inventions could change our lives.
伟大的发明可能会改变我们的生活。
2 In this unit, let's explore inventions.
在本单元，让我们来探讨发明吧。
3 Where do smart ideas come from
聪明的想法来自哪里？
4 What qualities do inventors have
发明者具有哪些品质？
5 What drives people to invent
什么促使人们去发明？
6 By the end of this unit, you will make a display board about an invention.
在本单元结束时，你将制作一个关于发明物的展示板。
7 After completing the unit, you will be able to:
学完本单元后，你将能够：
8 Use words and expressions in the unit to talk about inventions.
用本单元的单词和词组来讨论发明。
9 Use the infinitive and -ing as object to talk about ideas for inventions.
用不定式和动名词做宾语来谈论发明创意。
10 Explain the importance of inventions.
解释发明的重要性。
A helping hand 一只援助之手
11 Easton LaChappelle, a 14-year-old student, stood beside his work at a science fair.
在一场科学展览会上，伊斯顿·拉查佩尔，一名14岁的学生，站在他的作品旁边。
12 It was a robotic arm.
他的作品是一只机械手臂。
13 He built it out of plastic blocks and fishing line.
他用塑料块和钓鱼线制作了它。
14 “Hello,” said a girl with an artificial arm, as she shook hands with Easton's work.
“你好”，一个戴着人造手臂的女孩一边说一边跟伊斯顿的作品握手。
15 This was the first time Easton met Jenny, a girl with a special condition.
这是伊斯顿第一次见到珍妮——一个有着特殊情况的女孩。
16 She was born without an arm.
她天生没有了一只手臂。
17 Her artificial arm was just a simple hook, but it cost $80,000.
她的人造手臂只是一个简单的钩子，但是它花了80 000美元。
18 What's worse, children like her grow quickly and need new arms all the time.
更糟糕的是，像她这样的孩子长得很快，经常需要新的（人造）手臂。
19 It blew me away!
这让我大吃一惊！
20 I built my arm for only $300, thought Easton.
我制造了我的（机械）手臂只花了300美元。伊斯顿想。
21 I must lend a hand to people like her.
我必须帮助像她这样的人。
22 After the fair, Easton's room became a lab.
展览会之后，伊斯顿的房间变成了一个实验室。
23 He stayed there all day.
他一整天都待在那儿。
24 He always tried to improve his work.
他总是尽力改进他的作品。
25 For his 16th birthday, Easton got a 3-D printer.
在他十六岁生日时，伊斯顿买了一台3D 打印机。
26 And with it, he invented an artificial arm.
他用它发明了一只人造手臂。
27 It was able to move with brain signals of the user.
它能够根据使用者的大脑信号移动。
28 But it wasn't good enough yet: the arm weighed 3.6 kilograms.
但它还是不够好：这只手臂重3.6千克。
29 It was too heavy for a child.
它对一个小孩来说太重了。
30 Easton kept working on it.
伊斯顿继续研究它。
31 He enjoyed fixing problems one after another.
他喜欢一个接一个地解决问题。
32 And finally he hit on success at age 23.
最后，他在23岁时取得了成功。
33 His design only weighed 0.5 kilograms and cost around $500!
他的设计仅仅重0.5千克，花费大约500美元。
34 Easton's invention has helped many children.
伊斯顿的发明已经帮助了许多孩子。
35 He didn't want to make money from it.
他并不想从中赚钱。
36 He decided to post his design online... for free!
他决定把他的设计发布在网上......免费的！
37 People can download the design and make an artificial arm with their own 3-D printers!
人们可以下载这个设计并用他们的3D打印机制作一个人造手臂。
38 What a helping hand!
多么有帮助的一只手呀！
The power of curiosity 好奇心的力量
39 Albert Einstein once said, “I have no special talents.
阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦曾说过：“我没有什么特别的天赋。
40 I am only passionately curious.”
我只是有强烈的好奇心。”
41 The greatest inventions in history would be impossible without curiosity.
没有好奇心，历史上哪些最伟大的发明将不可能（存在）。
42 Curiosity can bring new discoveries.
好奇心可以带来新的发现。
43 Benjamin Franklin is a great example.
本杰明·富兰克林是一个很好的例子。
44 He was drawn to electricity and had a deep curiosity about its nature.
他对电很着迷，对它的性质有着强烈的好奇心。
45 He did lots of research to try to understand it.
他做了很多研究来努力理解它。
46 For example, he flew a kite during a storm.
例如，他在暴风雨中放风筝。
47 His curiosity led him to invent the lightning rod.
他的好奇心让他发明了避雷针。
48 This invention protects buildings from lightning.
这项发明使建筑物免受雷击。
49 Curiosity can also make people brave.
好奇心也可以使人勇敢。
50 Just look at Wan Hu,the Ming Dynasty pioneer of space exploration.
看看万户，他是中国明朝时期太空探索的先驱。
51 He was so curious about space that he invented a “flying chair”!
他对太空如此好奇，以至于他发明了一个“飞椅”！
52 He lost his life while testing this invention.
在测试这项发明时，他失去了生命。
53 Despite the failure, his curiosity gave future explorers ideas.
尽管失败了，但他的好奇心为后来的探索者提供了灵感。
54 People learnt from his example, and created safer ways to explore space.
人们从他的例子中学习，创造了更安全的探索太空方式。
55 But curiosity is more than just taking risks.
但是好奇心不仅仅是冒险。
56 It also drives people towards certain goals.
它也促使人们朝着某个目标前进。
57 Zhang Heng, a Chinese scientist and inventor, was curious about the world:
中国科学院和发明家张衡对世界充满了好奇：
58 how did everything in the world move
世间万物是如何移动的？
59 He spent years studying the sky and the earth.
他花了数年研究天空和地球。
60 Finally, he drew China's first star map, and invented the first earthquake detector.
最后，他画出了中国的第一张星图，发明了第一台地震探测器。
61 His curiosity continues to influence scientists today.
他的好奇心继续影响着当今的科学家。
62 As Jacques Coustea said, “What is a scientist after all
正如雅克·库斯托所说：“究竟什么是科学家？
63 It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.”
他是一个好奇的人，试图通过大自然的钥匙孔弄清楚发生了什么。”
64 Curiosity is the key.
好奇心就是钥匙。
65 It opens one door after another for us to discover a new world.
它为我们打开了一扇又一扇发现新世界的大门。

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