英语听力文章：眼镜简史带中文

英语听力文章：眼镜简史带中文
When you think about inventions that have radically changed human existence, what comes to mind? Probably
the wheel, the printing press, maybe the refrigerator and definitely personal computers. Then there are those more mundane things that we rarely think about, but without which we’d be much worse off. Like eyeglasses, for example. Imagine a world without glasses —many of us would walk around bumping into things and driving our cars up onto the sidewalk. So who invented glasses, and how were they first made?
The truth is that nobody knows who invented eyeglasses. At some point in Italy between 1268 and 1289 someone came up with the idea, but the actual inventor remains anonymous.
What we do know is that the earliest lenses were made from quartz and were usually set into bone, metal, or leather. As
soon as early opticians figured out how to make glass without bubbles and other obstructions, they started making lenses
out of glass.
Ye Olde Nose Pinchers
Although glasses spread quickly throughout Europe and Asia, there was one major problem ： Keeping them on the wearer ’s face. Early glasses acted a bit like pinchers, squeezed onto the bridge of the nose. Ouch! It took nearly
400 years before opticians figured out that rigid sidepieces resting on top of the ears might do the trick.
No history of spectacles would be complete without
some mention of Benjamin Franklin, who invented bifocals in
the 1780s. Annoyed at having to constantly switch glasses
whenever he wanted to read or take in the sights while
traveling, Franklin had his reading glasses cut in half and
fused with his distance glasses. Now that ’s American
ingenuity for you.
若问你哪些发明从实质上改变了人类的生计状态，你会怎么说 ? 答案也许是车轮、印刷机，也可能是冰箱甚至个人电脑。

还有好多我
们鲜少想到的平时之物，没了它们我们的生活将会一团糟。

眼镜，就
是此中之一。

想像没有眼镜的生活 - 好多人走路嗑嗑绊绊，车辆开到了
人行道上。

那么，是谁发了然眼镜，眼镜最先是怎么来的呢 ?
其实没人知道究竟是谁发了然眼镜。

1268 年至 1289 年间某个意
大利人造就了它，可是此人姓甚名谁仍无人了解。

知道的是最早的镜
片由石英打造，镶嵌在骨头、金属或皮革上。

眼镜商能制造出无气泡
和其余问题的玻璃后，他们便开始用玻璃制作镜片了。

古老的鼻夹
即便眼镜快速地在欧亚各地流行，但仍有一个很大的问题摆在面前：怎么让它戴在脸上。

初期的方法有点像钳子的原理- 把眼镜挤在鼻梁上。

天了撸 ! 直到 400 年后眼镜商才理解在双侧用支架固定在耳朵上
才是解决问题的方法。

不提到本杰明弗兰克林，眼镜的发展史就不算完好， 1780 年他发了然双光眼镜。

因由是他对在阅读和旅途赏析景色时要改换眼镜感觉
烦恼，便把自己的老花镜一折为二，和远视镜焊接在一同。

这就是美
国人的奇思妙想。