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外文翻译 外文翻译原文： The Reciprocating EngineMy Internet research eventually led me to the American Stirling Company．While cruising their website for engine kits I ran across，an ad that said they wanted a technical writer who would trade some writing of instructional material and plans for engine kits．I shot them a quick email．I am a technical writer in my day job，and I write instructional material for computer software．Now that I was designing my own Stirling engines，I thought I would be a perfect match for them!Well，I didn’t end up working for them，but after afew conversations with the owner of the company I was on a mission to complete my quest for a hand built LTD Stirling engine，and I was going to write a book about it at the same time．Brent Van Arsdell of The American Stirling Company was very helpful．He gave me some very good advice about how to increase the efficiency of my engine designs．He knew a lot a bout friction．He knew how to calculate its impact，and how to overcome some of the problems it can cause．He didn’t really need a technical writer any more，but he did offer me some great encouragement on my efforts to design an efficient hand built engine．He suggested that if I could build a Stirling engine that met these criteria，it would make a great selling book．Here is what my designs had to do：·The engine had to run from the heat of a warm hand．·The engine had to be made from common materials that would be easy for anyone to obtain．· It had to be affordable to build．· It had to be built without the aid of a machine shop．I could only use the kinds of tools that most folks already have in their garage．I stumbled across the website of an engineer in France who was working on a similar project．The only problem was the website was entirely in French!I had a brief email exchange with the author and asked him if his website was available i n English．He replied。“Sorry．no．It is hard enough to explain in French!But I gleaned a lot of helpful hints from his pictures and fro