大学英语精读听力第二册 2_un03

[06:26.53] and he invented a plow superior to any other in existence.
[06:32.91]He influenced architecture throughout America,
[06:37.95]and he was constantly producing devices
[06:42.42]for making the tasks old of ordinary life easier to perform.
[06:48.48]Of all Jefferson's many talents,one is central.
[06:54.04]He was above all a good and tireless writer.
[06:59.50]His complete works,now being published for the first time,
[07:05.06]will fill more than fifty volumes.
[07:09.82]His talent as an author was soon discovered,
[07:14.78]and when the time came to write the Declaration
[07:19.75]of Independence at Philadelphia in 1776, the task of writing it was his.
[07:28.52] Millions have thrilled to his words:
[07:32.78]"We hold thesem truths to be self-evident,
[07:37.93]that all men are created equal..." When Jefferson died on July 4,1826,
[07:47.70]the 50th anniversary of American independence,
[07:52.95]he left his countrymen a rich legacy of ideas and examples.
[07:59.50]American education owers a great debt to Thomas Jefferson,
[08:05.38]who believed that only a nation of educated people could remain free.