第一篇：英语写作西方名人例子

Great Souls

Ø Nelson Mandela

Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism and antiapartheid.Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial

government and majority rule.He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.(138)

Ø Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement.He was the pioneer of the resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon total non-violence—which led India to independence and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.He is officially honored in India as the Father of the Nation.After assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, build religious and ethnic amity, and increase economic self-reliance.Above all, he aimed to achieve the

independence of India from foreign domination.Later he campaigned against the British to Quit India.Gandhi spent a number of years in jail in both South Africa and India.(128)

Additionally, Gandhi influenced important leaders and political movements.Leaders of the civil rights movement in the United States, including Martin Luther King and James Lawson, drew from the writings of Gandhi in the development of their own theories about non-violence.Anti-apartheid activist and former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, was inspired by Gandhi.Prior to becoming President of the United States, then-Senator Barack Obama noted that: Throughout my life, I have always looked to Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration, because he embodies the kind of transformational change that can be made when ordinary people come together to do extraordinary things.That is why his portrait hangs in my Senate office: to remind me that real results will come not just from Washington – they will come from the people.(129)

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr.was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the

African-American civil right movement.His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.King led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president.King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.There, he raised public

consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S.history.By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the VietnamWar, both from a religious perspective.In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end

racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004;Martin Luther King, Jr.Day was established as a U.S.national

holiday in 1986.(192)

Ø Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950.For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity‗s expansion.Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS,leprosy and tuberculosis, children's and family counseling programs, and schools.By the 1970s she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocated for the poor and helpless.She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna in 1980 for her humanitarian work.(122)

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Ø Susan B.Anthony

Although I am not a feminist, I admire Susan B.Anthony for her daring to hold on to her view even being mocked cruelly by her contemporaries.A tireless civil rights worker, Anthony devoted her life to the work which has guaranteed women‘s basic right, including suffrage and equal protections under law.She believed that men and women are created equal and persevered unremittingly in opening doors and expanding acceptable modes of behavior for women.In the patriarchy society of her time, people considered her unladylike and ridiculous.However, 19th Amendment to the Constitution gives women‘s rights to vote, which established Susan B.Anthony as a bold revolutionary feminist in history.(111)

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger sparked the birth control movement with the publication of The Woman Rebel, in which she encourages women to view conception as a choice rather than an obligation.In 1923, her tireless efforts resulted in the establishment of America's first legal birth control clinic, which served as a contraceptive dispensary and research facility under the auspices of the American Birth Control League(one of the groups that eventually morphed into Planned Parenthood).The birth control movement has had far-reaching, worldwide implications, from women's rights to population control to the sexual revolution.(92)

l Bright Minds

Ø Newton

Newton‘s aim at Cambridge was a law degree.Instruction at Cambridge was dominated by the philosophy of Aristotle but some freedom of study was allowed in the third year of the course.Newton had a golden opportunity to study an abundance of great minds: the philosophy of Descartes, Gassendi, Hobbes, and in particular Boyle.The mechanics of the Copernican

astronomy of Galileo attracted him and he also studied Kepler‘s Optics.It is a fascinating account of how Newton‘s ideas were formed.He collected all these thoughts and developed his own system by which he successfully explained a wide range of previously unrelated phenomena: the eccentric orbits of comets, the procession of the Earth‘s axis, and motion of the Moon as perturbed by the gravity of the Sun, as well as the three laws of motion that made him an international leader in scientific research and the greatest pilot in human‘s civilization.(157)

Ø Darwin’s Origin of Species

The theory of evolution is one of the great intellectual revolutions of human history.Hundreds of years ago, people were confused with the complexity of different species of the world, and believed that species were created by the mysterious God.However, Darwin did not believe so.After several years' study, he eventually demonstrated that species, however complex seemingly, all evolved by natural selection from simple and preliminary conditions.When Darwin published his famous research results on the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, the book encountered lots of controversies.Members of the religious community, as well as some

scientific peers, were outraged and protested.However, Darwin's idea of evolution eventually defeated the traditional belief and was accepted and acknowledged by some insightful scientists and finally by the society.It is now reverenced as one of the greatest intellectual revolutions of human history.(144)

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.Disturbed by the failure of Ptolemy's geocentric model of the universe to follow Aristotle's requirement for the uniform circular motion of all celestial bodies, Copernicus decided that he could achieve his goal only through a heliocentric model.He thereby created a concept of a universe in which the distances of the planets from the sun bore a direct relationship to the size of their orbits.At the time

Copernicus's heliocentric idea was very controversial;nevertheless, it was the start of a change in the way the world was viewed, and Copernicus came to be seen as the initiator of the Scientific Revolution.(129)

Ø Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.His achievements include improvements to the

telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism.Galileo's observations about four satellites of Jupiter with his new telescope convinced him of the truth of Copernicus's sun-centered or heliocentric theory.Galileo has been called the “father of modern observational astronomy,” the “father of modern physics,” and “the Father of Modern Science.” Stephen Hawking says, “Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.”(96)

Ø Christopher Columbus

In 1485, Columbus presented his plans to John II, King of Portugal.He requested he be made “Great Admiral of the Ocean”, appointed governor of any and all lands he discovered, and given

one-tenth of all revenue from those lands.The king submitted the proposal to his experts and rejected it.In 1488 Columbus appealed to the court of Portugal once again, and once again it also proved unsuccessful.Then, Columbus travelled from Portugal to both Genoa and Venice, but he received encouragement from neither.In1486, Columbus presented his plans to Queen Isabella.After the passing of much time, these savants of Spain, like their counterparts in Portugal, pronounced the idea impractical, and advised their Royal Highnesses to pass on the proposed venture.But after endless attempts at establishing a settlement of Hispanism, Catholic Monarchs finally gave him an annual allowance of 12,000 maravedis and furnished him with a letter ordering all cities and towns under their domain to provide him food and lodging with which Columbus successfully initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans and carved out the cross-continental trade market.(183)

Ø John Nash

Before 1950, Adam Smith was respected as ―the father of Game Theory‖, he wrote a famous book named The Wealth of Nations and demonstrated ―perfect competition‖ which was

commonly accepted by people.There is a sentence from the book ―Inpidual ambition serious the common good‖ which means when each inpidual pursue his own interests, the benefits of the group will be improved most effectively.However, John Nash, a normal mathematician in Princeton University, created a theory ―Nash Equilibrium‖ which laid the foundation of Game Theory in 1950.He doubted the statement from Adam Smith, and he succeeded.John Nash wrote a 28 pages dissertation to argue a new theory.Due to the fact that personal benefits

conflict each other, the interest of a group will be harmed.To ensure the interests of whole group, inpiduals should find equilibrium between the personal and group interests.Consequently, John Nash received the Nobel Prize in economics and fundamentally reformed the arena of economics.(160)

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Alfred Bernhard Nobel-1

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.To be able to detonate the dynamite rods he also invented a detonator which could be ignited by lighting a fuse.The market for dynamite and detonating caps grew very rapidly and Alfred Nobel also proved himself to be a very skillful entrepreneur and businessman.He later produced ballistite, one of the first smokeless powders.At the time of his death, his will provide his enormous fortune of the major portion of $9 million estate to

institute the Nobel Prize, a yearly prize for merit in physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology, literature, and world peace.The synthetic element nobelium was named after him.(119)

Ø Thomas Edison

In 19th century, people could only get light from candles, but it suffered from several

disadvantages, including exorbitantly high price and in adequate lightness.Thomas Edison, one of the most prominent inventors in the 20th century, overcame 1500 failure and suitable filament for electric light bulb which were affordable for all people to buy and use.He tried numerous

materials such as iron, copper, aluminum, silver, hair, even his colleague‘s brown beard, but he fails all times.Nevertheless he did not give up and dedicated himself in finding the best material.The belief held by him was that ―we will make the electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn

candles.‖ He had the first successful experiment in 1879, finding that carbon filament can last over 40 hours, but he and his team were not satisfied for that.Through hundreds of tough trying, they finally found carbonized bamboo filament which could last over 1200 hours.Furthermore, the light bulbs invented by Edison with the most suitable filament have not only lighted up the world, but influenced people‘s lives all over the world until now.(185)

第二篇：SAT写作名人例子

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第三篇：GRE写作名人例子

在练习作文的过程中,发现很多人名在很多人名在很多题材的作文中都可以反复用到,在没有总结这些名字之前,老是写新文章时就忘记了以前用过的人名的拼写.所以就开始积累常用人名了.由于论坛里其它形式的资料帖都有了,为求有点新意,能给g友们更快地提升作文,遂决定把本人的人名总结及其适用文章贡献出来.:)

由于适用的文章是我临时回忆的,所以肯定不止下面列举的这些适用文章.欢迎补充!

凡高 Van Gogh: 艺术类文章里引用,如arts and critics, greatness总是超前时代的所以只能由后人评判, history强调inpidual(因为在艺术历史领域只能强调inpidual),还有percive world with different eyes也可以引用这个例子.此人的另类抽象painting风格和当时的审美标准不符,故遭排挤,而几百年后的critics才发现他的价值.哥白尼 Copernicus:引用题目有:greatness超前时代,挑战权威(当时是church),history强调inpidual(因为在科学研究领域只能强调inpidual).此人是日心说,当时宗教教育说是地心说,死前才公布自已的论断(因为怕早死).莫扎特 Mozart: greatness只能由后人判断的反面例子.此人音乐才华在世时就被教皇看重,给以了很多赞助,使其.......毕加索 Picasso: greatness只能由后人判断的反面例子,arts反映hidden ideas的反面例子.此人是20世纪最伟大的画家,其画风格为cubism,很多人说他的画只反映个人的ideocyncratic,而没有反映社会的hidden ideas,此人在世时就被判为greatness了.林肯 Abraham Lincoln: history关注inpiduals,effective leader要随机应变,justand unjust laws.此人南北战争,解放黑奴,没有他,可能就没有今天这样的美国了.据说他在南北战争前是不支持解放黑奴的,而之后又支持了.马丁路德金 Martin Luther King: leaders要有很高的moral and ethical standards, history关注inpiduals的重要性,just and unjust laws,学习历史的重要性.此人为黑人获得与白人相同的权利发起了黑奴运动,他的“I have a dream”演讲教育了一代一代人.他的moral and ethical standards是不用说的,没有这个inpidual,美国黑人现在可能还要坐在汽车后面的座位.莎士比亚 Shakespeare: greatness由后人评判的反面例子,survive and arts里强调arts可以培养人什么的.此人的介绍我就不多说了.贝多芬 Beethoven: arts的重要性,arts and critics.此人为著名作曲家,'命运'激励了多少人,当时的critics也批斗过他,因为standards很rigid and stale.希特勒 Hitler:

不能迷信权威啊,学习历史的重要性啊(不重蹈覆辙),history强调inpidual啊.此人是著名战争狂,由于全国人都迷信他的言论才能坐上首相位置,学习他的例子可以使现在的社会不重蹈他的覆辙,他这个inpidual也反映当时common people/multitude的普遍value:战争主义,chauvinism.加利略 Galileo:不迷信权威,history强调inpidual(因为在科学研究领域只能强调inpidual),beginner and expert.当时的expert和authority就是Aristotle,认为物体越重下降越快.而此人证明了其实都是一样快的.亚力士多德 Aristotle: 和加利略一起举例.爱因斯坦 Einstein: 不迷信权威.greatness由后人判断的反面例子.beginner andexpert中expert的劣势.此人证明了权威牛顿三大定律只能在宏观世界有效,而不适于微观世界.其greatness在其在世时就确立了,他曾说过,自从他成名后,就没能找出一段完整属于自己的时间来深入思考这个世界了.牛顿 Newton.不迷信权威,greatness由后人判断.此人是个权威,被爱因斯坦挑战见爱因斯坦那条.华盛顿 George Washington: history研究inpidual的重要性.leaders 要有moralstandards.此人为美国开国总统,没有他开了连续任两届总统就得下台的先河,可能美国在他之后好久都是专制国家,因为当时有人要他当皇帝.凯萨 Caesar.history研究inpidual的重要性.此人即是亚利山大大帝,所建立的亚力山大帝国地跨三大陆.研究那个帝国如果研究他,只研究multitude怎么能研究得下去?

托马斯.杰佛森 Thomas Jefferson: 这个有点想不起来用在哪里了.此人说过all men are created

equal->the declaration of independence:

甘地 Gandhi: greatness的文章,leaders and moral standards的文章.此人是印度的建国祖师,坐过很多牢,stoic,情操很高,结果可以只demenstration来和平解放印度.拿破仑 Napoleon: inpidual的重要性.此人是著名战争狂,他的发起的战争虽然很荒唐,但却被法国中场阶认为很浪漫,他的inpidual反映当时的普遍价值观.肯尼迪 Kennedy: scandals,leaders should have moral standards.此人在位时很大程度缓解了苏美关系.却有marital scandals.所以scandals会distract us from

people's real responsibility.罗斯福 Roosevelt(FDR): inpidual的重要性,领导要听取群众意见,随机应变.此人有两大贡献:发动反德战争,带美国走出Depression.没有他的发动战争宣言,可能WWII不会这么快结束.据说一位英国著名经济学家曾写信给他说要他采取苏联模式来政府介入自由经济,操控经济,才使他在1930年代出台各种政府措施来改善经济,使得经济复苏(大国崛起里说的).成吉斯汗 Genghis Khan: 领导要听取群众意思,而不是有强硬持久的原则和目标: 这个也不用介绍了.斯大林 Stalin: 同成吉斯汗.达尔文 Darwin: 挑战权威.进化论的祖师爷,写过'the origin of species'.挑战当时普遍的神创论.孟德尔 Mendel: expert and beginner,data的重要性.因为是expert,因为做了十年研究积累了大量data,才由统计学原理发现了law of Inheritance.瓦特 Watt James: 很多都适用,如creativity很重要啊,兴趣很重要而不是老去考虑对社会会有什么贡献啊.此人发明了蒸汽机,从小喜欢机械,并一直研究.里根 Reagon: 投资类题目适用.他发起了星球计划.为将来的太空军备竞赛作准备.结果由于工程浩大而放弃,浪费了很多钱,所以投资都应该用在对社会有实在好处上.居里 Mary Curie: 学习历史人物的重要性,失败是成功之母.此女人经过十年才找到radium这种元素,并把提取方法毫无保留地与全世界共享,获得了若贝尔奖.其坚持不懈的品质值得学习,其十年失败,终成功的例子说明了失败是成功之母.克里克 Crick: imagination and knowledge.此人很变态,发现DNA结构是由于做梦!

麦克斯维 Maxwell: imagination and knowledge,greatness由后人判断.此人是著名物理学家,他大胆推测出电磁场理论electromagnetism并给予理论证明,但当时很多人不能相信,在他死后就有人从实验室证明了他的理论.

第四篇：英语作文中名人例子

4008111111 英语作文中名人例子

1.成功 / 英雄 / 困难类（被写的经久不衰！）2.大众观点类：（媒体 / 团体 / 主流）

3.谎言 / 现象本质 / 隐私（这个我也不懂）4.动机类（这个说的优点玄乎）5.改变 / 科技 / 创新类

6.了解自身类 7.选择类

下面就淘选了些经典例子！

1.Bill Gates（比尔盖茨）

When Bill Gates made his decision to drop out from Harvard, he did not care too much of the result.Gates entered Harvard in 1973, and dropped out two years later when he and Allen started the engine of Microsoft.Many people did not understand why Gates gave up such a good opportunity to study in the world’s No.1 University.However, with size comes power, Microsoft dominates the PC market with its operating systems, such as MS-DOS and Windows.Now, Microsoft becomes the biggest software company in the world and Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world.用于有放弃就会有所得、勇气、懂得把握机会类

2.Thomas Edison（托马斯 爱迪生）

In 1879, after more than 1,000 trials and $40,000, Thomas Edison introduced an inexpensive alternative to candles and gaslight: the incandescent lamp.Using carbonized filaments from cotton thread, his light bulb burned for two days.These bulbs were first installed on the steamship Columbia and have been lighting up the world ever since.用于创造力/科技类、失败是成功之母、努力、成功 / 英雄 / 困难类

3.Mother Teresa（特雷莎修女）

Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated the majority of her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name “Saint of the Gutters.” The devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.She founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India dedicated to serving the poor.Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity have grown from 12 sisters in India to over 3,000 in 517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide.用于大众观点类/善良、品性/

4.Diana Spencer（戴安娜王妃）

Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Whales, is remembered and respected by people all over the world more for her beauty, kindness, humanity and charitable activities than for her technical skills.不好意思了，戴安娜王妃，我还真不知怎么用你呢..5.Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela（纳尔逊·罗利赫拉赫拉·曼德拉）

Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism and antiapartheid.Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa‘s antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule.He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.用于英雄、斗争/大众观点类（非暴力）/

6.Beethoven（贝多芬）

Beethoven, the German Composer, began to lose his hearing in 1801 and was entirely deaf by 1819.However, this obstacle could not keep him from becoming one of the most famous and prolific composers in art history.His music, including 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, several senates and so on, formes a transition from classical to romantic composition.用于成功 / 英雄 / 困难类 7.George Bush（乔治 布什）

On January 16, 1991, President Bush ordered the commencement of Operation Desert Storm, a massive U.S.-led military offensive against Iraq in the Persian Gulf.In late 1992, Bush ordered U.S.troops into Somalia, a nation devastated by drought and civil war.The peacekeeping mission would prove the most disastrous since Lebanon, and President Clinton abruptly called it off in 1993.用于成功 / 英雄 / 困难类

8.Jimmy Carter（吉米卡特）

President Carter's policy of placing human rights records at the forefront of America's relationships with other nations contributed to a cooling of Cold War relations in the late 1970s.In 1980, for the first time in seven years, Fidel Castro authorized emigration out of Cuba by the country's citizens.The United States welcomed the Cubans, but later took steps to slow the tide when evidence suggested that Castro was using the refugee flight to empty his prisons.用于成功 / 英雄 / 困难类/斗争、9.Neville Chamberlain（内维尔张伯伦）

In 1938, British Prime Minister Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler, an agreement that gave Czechoslovakia away to Nazi conquest while bringing, as Chamberlain promised, “peace in our time.”

Eleven months after the signing of the Munich Pact, Germany broke the peace in Europe by invading Poland.A solemn Chamberlain had no choice but to declare war, and World War II began in Europe.不喜欢他，不说了...10.Raoul Wallenberg（瓦伦堡）

Raoul Wallenberg was a young Swedish aristocrat.In 1944 he left the safety of his country and entered Budapest.Over the next year he outwitted the Nazis and saved as many as 100,000 Jews(he was not himself Jewish)from the death camps.In 1945 he was arrested by the Russians, charged with spying, and imprisoned in a Russian labor camp.用于道德类/英雄、自救（Conscience is a more powerful motivation than money,fame and power）

11.George Soros--（乔治 索斯洛）the financial crocodile Soros, who at one stage after the fall of the Berlin Wall was providing more assistance to Russia than the US government, believes in practising what he preaches.His Open Society Institute has been pivotal in helping eastern European countries develop democratic societies and market economies.Soros has the advantage of an insider's knowledge of the workings of global capitalism, so his criticism is particularly pointed.Last year, the Soros foundation's network spent nearly half a billion dollars on projects in education, public health and promoting democracy, making it one of the world's largest private donors.用于大众观点类：（媒体 / 团体 / 主流）

12.Paul Revere（保罗）

Our perceptive towards Paul Revere just illustrates this point.According to the romantic legend, he, galloping along of the dark from one farm house to another, alerted the people to the coming British.And of course the story emphasized the courage of one man, made him a hero in our history books.However, his heroism required a matrix of others

who were already well-prepared to mobilize against the oppressor and he was just one part of a pre-arrange plan.Heroes like Revere have no usefulness apart from a society primed to act.用于英雄、斗争/勇敢/合作类Cooperation

13.Henry Ford（亨利 福特）

Henry ford,one of the most influential inventors in the history, was always inattentive in school.Once ,he and a friend took a watch apart to probe the principle behind it.Angry and upset, the teacher punished him both to stay after school.their punishment was to stay until they had fixed the watch.but the teacher did not know young ford’s genius,in ten minutes,this mechanical wizard had repaired the watch and was on this way home.It is imagination that invigorated Ford to make a through inquiry about things he did not know.He once plugged up the spout of a teapot and placed it on the fire.then he waited to see what would happen.the water boiled and, of course, turned to steam.since the steam had no way to escape, the teapot exploded.the explosion cracked a mirror and broke a window.Ford’s year of curiosity and tinkering paid off,when he built his imagination of horseless carriage into reality, the history of transportation was changed forever

用于creativity/curiosity/科技类

15.Alexander Graham Bell（亚历山大 格雷厄姆贝尔）

Not realizing the full impact it would have on society, Alexander Graham Bell introduced the first telephone to an amazed audience at America's Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876.Within a year, Bell had installed 230 phones and established the Bell Telephone Company, which was later transformed into AT&T.In 1997, 643,000,000,000 calls were made by people in the United States alone.用于英雄/创造、科技/影响力类

考研政治大题答题技巧

普遍适用规则：

在掌握知识量基本相同的情况下，答题技巧的不同可能使总分相差10到20分。政治的考研试卷中大题的分值占百分之六十，而实际上大题也是技巧性最强的题型。下面向大家介绍大题答题四步曲：第一步：仔细审题。找出本题目是关于哪个学科的哪个章节，在草稿纸上写下此章节内所有可能与本题有联系的基本概念及原理。大多数题目是跨章节，甚至跨学科的，要注意思维的发散性。

第二步：解释每一个概念并写出原理的基本内容。如果自己写出的相关概念太多，则视试卷留出的空白捡重要的写，解释概念和原理一般不要超过本题答题空间的二分之一。什么？

太多了？不要怕，答多不扣分。但要注意答题时每个概念和原理要作为一段，字迹要工整清晰。好了，本题目分数的一半你已经拿到了，下面进行第三步。

第三步：联系实际。如果本题是论述题，则根据本题联系实际中的一些现象，给出评价；如果本题是材料题，则材料就是实际，指出材料中的一些问题，也就是将材料用你学过的关于政治的术语再复述一遍。这部分一定要有，而且要作为一个段落，如果字迹工整的话，即使这一段答得驴头不对马嘴，至少也有两分。第四步：总结。这一部分是绝对送分的，但也要有技巧。要将其作为一个段落，如果此题是论述题，则将整个题目再复述一遍，不要忘了在前面加上一个所以；如果此题是材料题，则提倡材料中好的做法，批评材料中坏的做法。

如果答大题时你能熟练地按上面的四步做，大题方面你至少可以比相同水平的其他人多得n分，不信？ 试用历史唯物主义的有关原理说明“以德治国”与“以法治国”的关系及其重要意义(2002年政治重中之重)。首先仔细读题目，题目中已经告诉我们是用马哲中的历史唯物主义的几章的原理，而以法治国和以德治国是邓论中的内容，因此要考虑将两个学科结合起来答题。表面上看题目中有两个基本概念以法治国和以德治国，联系到马哲，以德治国便是是道德问题，是上层建筑；以法治国便是法制问题。如此以来，此题需要答的基本概念和原理有：道德，法制，以德治国，以法治国，上层建筑，道德与法制的关系，以法治国和以德治国的关系。然后联系实际，这一步没关系，只要稍微写两句而且字迹工整便不失大格。最后总结，好像这里把题目重抄一遍不顺口，其实只要稍微一改便行：要把以法治国和以德治国相结合。

下面我们看一下标准答案：

1)历史唯物主义认为道德与法制既有联系又有区别，二者的区别表现在：道德的概念；法制的概念；道德与法制的关系。

2)历史唯物主义又认为，社会的经济基础决定上层建筑的产生、性质和变化；上层建筑反作用于经济基础。社会主义的法律和道德是社会主义上层建筑的重要组成部分，它对经济基础的发展有重大意义。

3)以法治国和以德治国又是相辅相成，不可分割的。以法治国的概念；以德治国的概念；以法治国和以德治国的关系。

4)把以德治国和以法治国紧密的结合起来，是建设有中国特色的社会主义的要求，也是社会主义市场经济的要求。怎么样，是不是感到大题的简单了？上面是我总结的几条关于政治考研的技巧，如果你能真正掌握它，不好意思，你的政治考研分数再也没有希望低于70分了。论述题：

第一步：仔细审题。

建议考生找出本题目是关于哪个科学的哪个章节，在草稿纸上写下此章节内所有可能与本题有联系的基本概念及原理。大多数题目是跨章节，甚至跨学科的，要注意思维的发散性。第二步：解释每一个概念并写出原理的基本内容。如果自己写出的相关概念太多，建议视试卷留出的空白捡重要的写，解释概念和原理一般不要超过本题答题空间的二分之一。什么？太多了？不要怕，答多了不扣分。但考生要注意答题时每个概念和原理要作为一段，字迹要工整清晰。好了，本题目分数的一半你已经拿到了，下面进行第三步。

第三步：联系实际。

如果本题是论述题，建议考生根据本题联系实际中的一些现象，给出评价，如果本题是材料题，则材料就是实际，指出材料中的一些问题，也就是将材料用你学过的关于政治的术语再复述一遍。这部分一定有要有，而且要作为一个段落，字迹工整。

第四步；总结。

这一部分是绝对送分的，但也要有技巧。将其作为一个段落，如果此题是论述题，则将整个题目再复述一遍，不要忘了在前面加上一个所以；如果此题是材料题，则提倡材料中好的做法，批评材料中坏的做法。

上面的四步中好像没有提过辨析题，辨析题就是一个分值较少而且需要判断的论述题，除了判断以外，上面的四步同样适用。但要求考生特别注意的是辨析题的判断，千万不要盲目的说其对错，例如一些题目的前半部分是对的而后半部分产错的，有的题目说的不会面，这些都要指出。材料题：

如何回答政治材料题

一、政治材料分析题的基本特点：

1、提供情境，包含手段和结果，要求从结果的好与坏来判断所运用手段是否合理，并要求提出相应的解决办法。

2、要求规范的答题步骤：先答基本原理，引出配套的方法，进而用方法来分析材料。

3、要求多角度分析所蕴涵的知识。

二、解题的基本思路：

1、从方法入手：先判断材料所持方法（手段）——根据知识体系中原理和方法（手段）的固定搭配得出基本原理。

2、判断方法最主要的依据是材料中的重点语句，对重点语句进行范畴归属判断，进而了解所持手段（方法）。

3、审题时应注意题目的限制性要求，并由此得出知识体系的大范围。

4、应注意材料中的效果，如果效果是积极的，说明所持方法（手段）是正确的；如果效果是消极的，说明所持方法（手段）是错误的。

错误的情况有很多种，最主要有以下几种：（1）与正确方法（手段）相对立；（2）主次颠倒；（3）主次不分；（4）割裂本来存在的联系。

5、应对材料进行层次分析，以便与方法（手段）相对应。找出所包含条件（重点语句），回答时决不能漏掉材料中所包含条件。

三、答题的基本步骤：

1、先回答基本原理

2、其次回答方法（手段）要求

3、把方法细化成几个方面，与材料层次对接，用材料替代原理，一一对应。

四、检查阶段：

1、应注意材料中所包含的条件是否全部用完，如果没有用完，说明前面所述知识点还有缺漏，应补齐。

2、检查重点语句范畴判断是否正确。

3、检查步骤是否完整、规范。是否按照：原理———方法———实践分析的步骤。

五、复习的基本要求：

1、应分层对知识进行整理，分为“是什么”、“为什么”、“怎么办”三部分，其中，“是什么”和“为什么”属于基本原理：“怎么办”属于方法（手段）。

2、“是什么”主要用与范畴判断，用以审题中的思路引入，即材料中重点语句范畴判断，借以得出原理。

3、“为什么”主要指关系、地位和作用、意义等，它是方法（手段）的理论出发点。

4、“怎么办”是掌握知识点的落脚点，也是材料引入的关键。“怎么办”不能停留在课本的水平上，还应与重大时事、党的路线、方针、政策相联系，把党的路线、方针、政策细化、归并入课本的基本点。

5、应对所有知识进行规范化整理，一方面，把所有知识分解为基本原理和基本要求（方法或手段）两大块；另一方面，按大、中、小三个

角度进行整理，“大”指最基本的原理，“中”指课本的具体要求，“小”指党的路线、方针、政策（它是课本具体要求的细化）；第

三、应注意知识之间的内在联系，进行横向整理，以便多角度地思考问题

分析题答题技巧材料分析题在近几年考研政治试卷中所占的分值比较重，需要考生加强训练。

（一）分析题

解答分析题的基本思路和步骤是：

1．仔细审题并抓关键词。大多数分析题是跨章节，甚至跨学科的。答题之前要仔细阅读题干、材料及问题，答题之前要仔细阅读题干、材料及问题，了解题目需要回答什么，为什么要这样回答，怎么回答。要注意思维的发散性。这是做好分析体的第一步，也是最关键的一步。找出本题目是关于哪个学科的哪个章节，在草稿纸上写下此章节内所有可能与本题有联系的基本概念及原理。对跨章节，甚至跨学科的题目，要注意思维的发散性。审题可以运用以下几种方法：

（1）逆向审题法：先搞清楚题目问什么？有几问？然后带着问题阅读材料。这样做可以不必要地重复审题，节省宝贵的考试时间。

（2）寻找关键词：抓关键词语，力求搞清每段材料的中心含义，努力回忆与此相关的课文理论，并注意筛选。

（3）分析层次法：对一大段材料的要分层并弄清每层意思，这种层次性既体现在题干的表述或材料中，也会明确出现在题后的设问中。通过分析，抓住试题的主旨，再按其要求分别回答，这样可以避免遗漏。

2．阅读材料并组织答案。在审清题意的基础上，仔细阅读题干或者材料。阅读时可边阅读边划出材料中带有结论性或倾向性的话语，或者在草稿纸上写下相关信息（注意不要沉溺于细节、事例或者数字），同时搜索、提取大脑中平时储存的相关知识，然后理清思路，组织答案。

3．答题时注意：

（1）凡问现象的问题，首先回答表象，即看到什么，就回答什么，不需太展开，简要回答即可。随后，必须回答现象之后隐含的实质（本质），这才是重点。

（2）凡是“分析”、“评述”的，就需要用原理紧扣材料进行分析。一般的思路是先表述相关原理，然后再联系材料中的现象进行分析、评述，可按是什么、为什么、怎么样的思路组织答案。

（3）回答问题注意层次性，要行文规范，简洁干练，表述准确，答案能紧扣要点，切忌东拉西扯、繁琐冗长。

（二）材料分析题

材料分析在2006年统一归进了分析题中，其形式独特，分值比例大，难度也不小，是考生考研中的一大难点，这里就单独列出再讲述一下其答题技巧。考生在解答材料分析题时要注意两点：一要注重联系实际，材料归纳出来后，用相关的事实理论做依据进行分析。二是结合理论分析问题时，要尽可能全面。材料涉及几个点，答题时就要将这几个点答全，每个点不需要展开太多，但要把基本要点说到。解答材料题时，尤其要注意层次和逻辑，不要自相矛盾，在答案中最好把观点一一罗列出来，便于阅卷教师找到要点。

解答材料式分析题的基本要求：在理论部分，要求准确选择与解题有关的基础知识。这是解

题的主导部分，是命题的出发点、立足点和依据。要准确、简洁地回答出有关理论知识内容。这一部分答好了，就能为下一步解题做好铺垫，使后面的分析论述有理有据。

首先，“掐头取尾”，看题干提示句和题后要求回答的问题。一般的材料题开题就有一句：“下面是一组关于......的材料”，这就给考生在阅读时获取什么样的信息界定了范围，使阅读不再盲目，以获取相关信息为重；然后，再迅速浏览题后问题，问题的要求又进一步缩小了信息取舍的范围，什么是“的”，在这里就确定了。最后，带着问题阅读材料。

其次，仔细而快速地阅读材料。认真研读试题材料，准确把握材料内容，深挖材料内涵。材料分析题的材料灵活多变，无一固定模式。有文字型的、图表型的：文字型的可分为摘自报刊、古籍、文件、人物讲话，也有命题者描述某种现象，提出几种观点的；图表型的有漫画、表格、地图、历史文物图片、函数图等。材料可能是一则，也可能有多则；既有单一类型的，也有文字型、图表型混合的；材料长短也各异，有的十分简短，有的篇幅冗长。不管材料以何种形式出现，认真阅读材料是基础，掌握其中信息是关键。

一般的材料提供信息很多，有主有次，还有重复的，这就提醒考生在做这类试题、阅读材料时，边读边用铅笔将含义相同的归类，并用1、2、3、......标注，对重要的核心句或者关键词，在下面画线，以备答题时直接应用，避免大量的重复阅读，造成无为的浪费。第三，利用获取的信息回答问题。在答题论述时，要求做到观点和材料的统一。这是解题的主体部分，要求考生用选定的基础理论知识，联系题中的材料进行分析论述，把理论与实际、观点与事实结合起来，即做到事理交融，观点统帅材料。要紧扣材料分析，或从材料中提炼出观点，或用观点分析材料，或用材料论证观点。防止就事论事，或就理论谈理论。第四，简短有力地做好小结。在小结部分，要牢牢抓住题意，适可而止。这是答题的结尾部分，是解题的落脚点。在结尾时，或针砭时弊，或点明意义，或联系自身，这些都要从题意出发，恰到好处，总的要求是思路清晰、表述简练、视角丰富，达到用画龙点睛、升华主题的目的就可。

第五篇：古今中外名人例子

古今中外名人例子

古今中外名人事例

1、李时珍与《本草纲目》

李时珍，明朝人，是一位伟大的医学家和药物学家。李时珍家世代行医，他的父亲医术很高，给病人看病常常不收诊费，就是不愿意让自己的儿子再当医生：因为那时候行医是让人看不起的职业。李时珍可不这样想，他暗自下定决心，要向父亲那样为病人治病。

李时珍22岁开始给人看病，一面行医，一面研究药物。他发现很多旧的药物书有不少缺点，于是下定决心重新编写一部完善的药物书。为了写这部药物书，李时珍不但在治病的时候注意积累经验，还亲自到各地去采药。他不怕山高路远，不怕严寒酷暑，走遍了盛产药材的名山。他有时好几天不下山，饿了吃些干粮，天黑了就在山上过夜。他走了上万里路，拜访了千百个医生、老农、渔民和猎人，向他们学到了许多书本上没有的知识。他还亲口品尝了许多药材，判断药性和药效。

他回到老家，花了整整27年的时间，终于编写成了一部新的药物书，就是著名的《本草纲目》，这部书有一百多万字，记载了一千八百多种药物，每一种都有图，是中药书籍中一部伟大的著作，已经被译成几国文字，在全世界流传。

2、.身残志坚张海迪

张海迪 5 岁时因患脊髓血管瘤，高位截瘫，她因此没有进过学校，童年时就开始以顽强的毅力自学知识，她先后自学了小学、中学、大学的专业课程。张海迪 15 岁时随父母下放聊城莘县一个贫穷的小山村，但她没有惧怕艰苦的生活，而是以乐观向上的精神奉献自己的青春。在那里给村里小学的孩子们教书，并且克服种种困难学习医学知识，热心地为乡亲们针灸治病，在莘县期间，她无偿地为人们治病一万多人次，受到人们的热情赞誉。

张海迪身残志坚，抱着“是颗流星，就要把光留给人间”的坚定信念，忍着常人难以想象的苦痛，自学了英，德，日语。还翻译了十三万字的英文小说，写了大量的文学作品，作出了令世人瞩目的成绩。

3、炸药之父———诺贝 尔

诺贝尔的父亲是一位颇有才干的发明家，倾心于化学研究，尤其喜欢研究炸药。受父亲的影响，诺贝尔从小就表现出顽强勇敢的性格，他经常和父亲一起去实验炸药。多年随父亲研究炸药的经历，也使他的兴趣很快转到应用化学方面。

1862年夏天，他开始了对硝化甘油的研究。这是一个充满危险和牺牲的艰苦历程。死亡时刻都在陪伴着他。在一次进行炸药实验时发生了爆炸事件，实验室被炸的无影无踪，5个助手全部牺牲，连他最小的弟弟也未能幸免。这次惊人的爆炸事故，使诺贝尔的父亲受到了十分沉重的打击，没有多久就去世了。他的邻居们出于恐惧，也纷纷向政府控告诺贝尔，此后，政府不准诺贝尔在市内进行实验。

但是诺贝尔百折不挠，他把实验室搬到市郊湖中的一艘船上继续实验。经过长期的研究，他终于发现了一种非常容易引起爆炸的物质－－雷酸汞，他用雷酸汞做成炸药的引爆物，成功地解决了炸药的引爆问题，这就是雷管的发明。当他满脸鲜血从爆炸成功的硝烟钻出时，却兴奋的大叫“我成功了”

诺贝尔一生的发明极多，获得的专利就有255种，其中仅炸药就达129种，就在生命的垂危之际，他仍念念不忘对新型炸药的研究

4、居里夫人的故事

几十年前，波兰有个叫玛妮雅的小姑娘，学习非常专心。不管周围怎么吵闹，都分散不了她的注意力。

一次，玛妮雅在做功课，她姐姐和同学在她面前唱歌、跳舞、做游戏。玛妮雅就像没看见一样，在一旁专心地看书。

姐姐和同学想试探她一下。她们悄悄地在玛妮雅身后搭起几张凳子，只要玛妮雅一动，凳子就会倒下来。时间一分一秒地过去了，玛妮雅读完了一本书，凳子仍然竖在那儿。

从此姐姐和同学再也不逗她了，而且像玛妮雅一样专心读书，认真学习。故事之一：简朴生活 玛妮雅长大以后，成为一个伟大的的科学家。她就是居里夫人。1895年，居里夫人和比埃尔?居里结婚时，新房里只有两把椅子，正好两人各一把。比埃尔?居里觉得椅子太少，建议多添几把，以免客人来了没地方坐，居里夫人却说：“有椅子是好的，可是，客人坐下来就不走啦。为了多一点时间搞研究，还是算了吧。”

从1913年起，居里夫人的年薪已增至4万法郎，但她照样“吝啬”。她每次从国外回来，总要带回一些宴会上的菜单，因为这些菜单都是很厚很好的纸片，在背面写字很方便。难怪有人说居里夫人一直到死都“像一个匆忙的贫穷妇人”。

有一次，一位美国记者寻访居里夫人，他走到村子里一座渔家房舍门前，向赤足坐在门口石板上的一位妇女打听居里夫人的住处，当这位妇女抬起头时，记者大吃一惊：原来她就是居里夫人。

.淡泊名利

居里夫人天下闻名，但她既不求名也不求利。她一生获得各种奖金10次，各种奖章16枚，各种名誉头衔107个，却全不在意。有一天，她的一位朋友来她家做客，忽然看见她的小女儿正在玩英国皇家学会刚刚颁发给她的金质奖章，于是惊讶地说“居里夫人，得到一枚英国皇家学会的奖章，是极高的荣誉，你怎么能给孩子玩呢?”居里夫人笑了笑说：“我是想让孩子从小就知道，荣誉就像玩具，只能玩玩而已，绝不能看得太重，否则就将一事无成。”

5、.宇宙之王霍金是谁

他是一个大脑，一个神奇，一个当代最杰出的理论物理学家，一个科学名义上的巨人。霍金小时候学习能力并不是很强，他很晚才学会阅读，上学后在班里的成绩从来没超过前十名，而且往往因为作业很不整洁，老师觉得是无药可救的孩子，同学们也把他当作嘲弄的对象，霍金十二岁的时候，班里的两个孩子曾用一袋糖果来打赌，说他永远不能成才，带有讽刺意味的给他取了个爱因斯坦的绰号，谁知二十多年后，从童年时代起，运动从来就不是霍金的长项，几乎所有的球类活动他都不行。到牛津的第三年，霍金注意到自己变得更笨拙了，有一两回没有任何原因地跌倒。一次，他不知何故从楼梯上突然跌下来，当即昏迷，差一点死去。直到1962年霍金在剑桥读研究生后，他的母亲才注意到儿子的异常状况。刚过完21岁生日的霍金在医院里住了两个星期，经过各种各样的检查，他被确诊患上了“卢伽雷氏症”，即运动神经细胞萎缩症。大夫对他说，他的身体会越来越不听使唤，只有心脏、肺和大脑还能运转，到最后，心和肺也会失效。霍金被“宣判”只剩两年的生命。那是在1963年。起初，这种病恶化得相当迅速。这对霍金的打击是可想而知的，他几乎放弃了一切学习和研究，因为他认为自己不可能活到完成硕士论文的那一天。

霍金的病情渐渐加重。1970年，在学术上声誉日隆的霍金已无法自己走动，他开始使用轮椅。直到今天，他再也没离开它。永远坐进轮椅的霍金，极其顽强地工作和生活着。1991年3月，霍金在一次坐轮椅回柏林公寓，过马路时被小汽车撞倒，左臂骨折，头被划破，缝了13针，但48小时后，他又回到办公室投入工作。又有一次，他和友人去乡间别墅，上坡时拐弯过急，轮椅向后倾倒，不料这位引力大师却被地球引力翻倒在灌木丛中。虽然身体的残疾日益严重，霍金却力图像普通人一样生活，完成自己所能做的任何事情。这位量子引力的大师级人物，多次在微弱的地球引力左右下，跌下轮椅，幸运的是，每一次他都顽强地重新“站”起来。1985年，霍金动了一次穿气管手术，从此完全失去了说话的能力。他就是在这样的情况下，极其艰难地写出了著名的《时间简史》，探索着宇宙的起源。

6、假如给我三天光明

海伦?凯勒是美国著名作家和教育家。一八八二年，在她一岁多的时候，因为发高烧，脑部受到伤害，从此以后，她的眼睛看不到，耳朵听不到，后来，连话也说不出来了。

她在黑暗中摸索著长大。七岁那一年，家里为她请了一位家庭教师，也就是影响海伦一生的苏利文老师。苏利文在小时候眼睛也差点失明，了解失去光明的痛苦。在她辛苦的指导下，海伦用手触摸学会手语，摸点字卡学会了读书，后来用手摸别人的嘴唇，终於学会说话了。

苏利文老师为了让海伦接近大自然，让她在草地上打滚，在田野跑跑跳跳，在地里埋下种子，爬到树上吃饭；还带她去摸一摸刚出生的小猪，也到河边去玩水。海伦在老师爱的关怀下，竟然克服失明与失聪的障碍，完成了大学学业。

一九三六年，和她朝夕相处五十年的老师离开人间，海伦非常的伤心。海伦知道，如果没有老师的爱，就没有今天的她，决心要把老师给她的爱发扬光大。於是，海伦跑遍美国大大小小的城市，周游世界，为残障的人到处奔走，全心全力为那些不幸的人服务。

一九六八年，海伦八十七岁去世，她终生致力服务残障人士的事迹，传遍全世界。她写了很多书，她的故事还拍成了电影。苏利文老师把最珍贵的爱给了她，她又把爱散播给所有不幸的人，带给他们光明和希望。

7、.高尔基宁肯挨打也要读书

高尔基是前苏联大文豪，列宁称他是“无产阶级艺术的最杰出的代表人物”。他出生在沙俄时代的一个木匠家庭，4岁丧父，寄养在外祖母家。因为家庭极为寒，他只读过两年小学。10岁时就走入冷酷的“人间”。他当过学徒，搬运工人，守认人，面包师。还两度到俄国南方流浪，受尽苦难生活的折磨。但他十分喜欢读书，在任何情况下，他都要利用一切机会，扑在书上如饥似渴地读着。如他自己所说：“我扑在书，就像饥饿的人扑在面包上一样。”他为了读书，受尽了屈辱。10岁时在鞋店当学徒，没有钱买书，就到处借书读。那时的学龄前徒，实际上是奴仆：上街买东西，生炉子，擦地板，洗菜带孩子……每天从早晨干到半认。在劳累一天之后，用自制的小灯，坚持读书。老板娘禁止高尔基读书，还到阁楼上搜书，搜到书就撕碎。因为读书，还挨过老板娘的毒打。高尔基为了看书，什么都能忍受，甚至甘愿忍受拷打。他说过：“假如有人向我提议说：„你去广场上用棍棒打你一顿！‟我想，就是这种条件，我也可以接受的。”由于高尔基一生如饥似渴地读书，勤奋不懈地努力，他写下了大量有影响的作品：《海燕》、《鹰之歌》、《母亲》、《克里姆?萨姆金的一生》、《童年》、《人间》、《我的大学》。除此之外，还写了剧本和大量的政论、特写、文

8、发明家爱迪生

爱迪生8岁上学，但仅仅读了三个月的书，就被老师斥为“低能儿”而撵出校门(因“愚钝糊涂”被勒令退学了)。从此以后，他的母亲是他的“家庭教师”，决定自己教儿子读书识字，并教育他要诚实、爱祖国、爱人类。由于母亲的良好的教育方法，使得他对读书发生了浓厚的兴趣。，一次他在火车上做实验时，列车突然颠簸，使一块磷落在木板上，引起燃烧。列车员赶来扑灭了火焰，也狠狠地给了他一个耳光，打聋了他的左耳，他被赶下了火车，那时爱迪生才16岁

爱迪生一生共有约两千项创造发明，为人类的文明和进步做出了巨大的贡献。他每发明一样东西，都要进行无数次的试验，失败，再试验，但他从不气馁。在进行电灯钨丝试验时，他失败了一千多次，依旧坚持不懈。最终成功解决了电灯泡的钨丝问题，获得了“人类光明的使者”的美誉。爱迪生的文化程度极低，对人类的贡献却这么巨大，这里的“秘诀”是什么呢？他除了有一颗好奇的心，一种亲自试验的本能，就是他具有超乎常人的艰苦工作的无穷精力和果敢精神。当有人称爱迪生是个“天才”时，他却解释说：“天才就是百分之一的灵感加上百分之九十九的汗水。”

爱迪生一生只上过三个月的小学，他的学问是靠母亲的教导和自修得来的。他的成功，还应该归功于母亲自小对他的谅解与耐心的教导。原来被人认为是低能儿的爱迪生，长大后成为举世闻名的“发明大王”。