What did they invent?

　　他们发明了什么？

　　In 1897, British inventor James Henry Atkinson was looking at the family’s supply of potatoes, which they kept in a room under their house. He noticed that mice had eaten some of the potatoes so he invented something that he called ‘Little Nipper’to stop them.

　　1897年，英国发明家詹姆斯·亨利·阿特金森正在查看家里的土豆供应情况，他们把土豆放在房子下面的一个房间里。他发现老鼠吃了一些土豆，于是他发明了一种叫“小钳子”的东西来阻止它们。

　　In 1886, Josephine Cochran was standing in her kitchen in Illinois, USA. The family lunch was finished. There was a mountain of dishes in front of Mrs Cochran and she got quite angry, thinking that she had to do this job every day. ‘If nobody else is going to invent a machine for this, I’ll do it myself’, she thought.

　　1886年，约瑟芬·科克伦站在美国伊利诺伊州的厨房里，一家人吃完了午餐。科克伦太太面前摆着堆积如山的盘子，她很生气，想着自己每天都要做这项工作。“如果没有人发明一台机器来解决这个问题，我自己来发明”，她想。

　　In the early years of the eighteenth century, in the middle of the summer, an unknown Dutchman was looking at one of the many canals in Holland. He was thinking that he often travelled along the frozen canals in ice skates in the winter. He got a little impatient. ‘I don’t want to wait for winter!’ he thought.

　　十八世纪初，盛夏时节，一位不知名的荷兰人看着荷兰众多运河中的一条。他在回想，冬天时，他经常穿着冰鞋沿着结冰的运河旅行。他有点不耐烦了。“我不想等到冬天！他想。

　　来源：MSE指定教材 English In Mind (student's book 2)

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