富兰克林的中英文简介及其名言.docxVIP

简介Benjamin Franklinwas born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice学徒 to his brother James, a printer, who published the New England Courant. To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going first to New York, and thence to Philadelphia, where he arrived in October, 1723. He soon obtained work as a printer, but after a few months he was induced by Governor Keith to go to London, where, finding Keiths promises empty, he worked as a compositor again till he was broughtbackto Philadelphia by a merchant named Denman, who gave him a position in his business. On Denmans death he returned to his former trade, and shortly set up a printing house of his own from which he published The Pennsylvania Gazette, to which he contributed many essays, and which he made a medium for agitating a variety of local reforms.In 1732 hebegan to issue his famous Poor Richards Almanac《穷理查德年鉴》，for the enrichment浓缩 of which he borrowed or composed整理 those pithy精辟的utterances言论 of worldly wisdom which are the basis of a large part of his popularreputation. In 1758, the year in which he ceases停止 writing for the Almanac, he printed in it Father Abrahams Sermon, now regarded as the most famous piece文章 of literature produced in Colonial America. Meantime Franklin was concerning himself more and more with public affairs. He set forth a scheme for an Academy, which was taken up later and finally developed into theUniversity of Pennsylvania; and he founded an American Philosophical Society for the purpose of enabling scientific men to communicate their discoveries to one another. He himself had already begun his electrical researches, which, with other scientific inquiries, he called on in the intervals of money-ma