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四大发明(the Four Great Inventions)是指中国古代对世界有巨大影响的四种发明。以下是整理的四大发明英语口语练习，仅供参考，大家一起来看看吧。
学好英语口语：四大发明
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May: There are so many people that the tickets are all sold out!
Daniel: Luckily we got the last two.
May: Look, Danny. The Four Great Inventions!
Daniel: Gunpowder, compass, the paper making, and the printing.
May: I really admire those who made such great inventions!
Daniel: May, I dont see why they are great. They are just simple things.
May: They look simple today. But they were milestones in their times.
Daniel: Milestones? May, you must be kidding.
May: Just think Bill Gates, those inventions are as important as the windows system.
Daniel: Well, I suppose the ancient inventors made a lot of money out of them.
May: No, quite the contrary.
Daniel: Why? Didnt you say that they were milestones?
May: Yes, but they went to the public without any patent protection.
Daniel: Well, their inventors were not as clever as Bill Gates.
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阿美：人太多了，票都卖完了。
丹尼尔：幸好我们买了最后两张。
阿美：看，丹丹，四大发明!
丹尼尔：火药、指南针、造纸术和印刷术。
阿美：我真崇拜这些伟大的发明者。
丹尼尔：阿美，我不明白有什么伟大的。它们只是些很简单的东西啊。
阿美：它们今天看起来很简单。但在它们那个时代却是里程碑。
丹尼尔：里程碑?阿美，你在开玩笑吧。
阿美：想想比尔?盖茨，那些发明的重要性不亚于Windows 操作系统。
丹尼尔：我想古代的发明家们肯定从它们身上赚了不少钱吧。
阿美：不，恰恰相反。
丹尼尔：为什么?你不是说它们是里程碑吗?
阿美：是啊，但是它们没有任何专利保护就进入市场了。
丹尼尔：哦，它们的发明者可没有比尔?盖茨那么聪明啊。
1、四大发明常识介绍
The Four Great Inventions of ancient China are four inventions that are celebrated in Chinese culture for their historical significance and as signs of ancient Chinas advanced science and technology.
The Four Great Inventions are: The Compass，Gun powder，Papermaking，Printing.
These four inventions had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese civilization and a far-ranging global impact. However, some modern Chinese scholars have pointed out that other inventions in China were perhaps more sophisticated and had a greater impact – the Four Great Inventions serve merely to highlight the technological interaction between East and West.
Although Chinese culture is replete with lists of significant achievements (e.g. Four Great Beauties, Four Great Books of Song, Four Great Classical Novels, Five Classics, Five Elders), the concept of the Four Great Inventions originated with European scholars, and was only later adopted by the Chinese.
The importance of these inventions was perhaps first discussed by the British philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626), who in 1620 wrote: "Printing, gunpowder and the compass … whence have followed innumerable changes, in so much that no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs than these mechanical discoveries." Bacon was likely unaware of the origins of these inventions, and was not writing of the ancient Chinese inventions but rather their Western analogs. However, his writings do show the importance of these technologies to the early-modern European world.
Later, Karl Marx also commented, "Gunpowder, the compass, and the printing press were the three great inventions which ushered in bourgeois society. Gunpowder blew up the knightly class, the compass discovered the world market and founded the colonies, and the printing press was the instrument of Protestantism and the regeneration of science in general; the most powerful lever for creating the intellectual prerequisites."
The modern list of the Four Great Inventions originated in the 19th century with the missionary and Sinologist Joseph Edkins (1823–1905). Edkins, when comparing Japan with China, noted that scholars should bear in mind that the Japanese did not have inventions as significant as papermaking, printing, the compass and gunpowder. This list was later popularized and augmented by the noted British biochemist, historian, and Sinologist Joseph Needham, who devoted the later part of his life to studying the science and civilization of ancient China.
2 与四大发明有关的术语
1．四大发明翻译
四大发明 The Four Inventions
造纸术 paper making
活字印刷术 word printing
火药 gun powder
指南针 compass
2．四大发明简介
Compass
The earliest reference to a magnetic device used as a "direction finder" is in a Song Dynasty book dated to AD 1040-44. Here there is a description of an iron "south-pointing fish" floating in a bowl of water, aligning itself to the south. The device is recommended as a means of orientation "in the obscurity of the night." However, the first suspended magnetic needle compass was written of by Shen Kuo in his book of AD 1088.
Gunpowder
Fireworks were invented in ancient China in the 12th century to scare away evil spirits, as a natural extension of gunpowder of the Four Great Inventions of ancient China.
Papermaking
Papermaking has traditionally been traced to China about AD 105, when Cai Lun, an official attached to the Imperial court during the Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220), created a sheet of paper using mulberry and other bast fibres along with fishnets, old rags, and hemp waste. However a recent archaeological discovery has been reported from near Dunhuang of paper with writing on it dating to 8 BC.
Printing
The Chinese invention of Woodblock Printing, at some point before the first dated book in 868 (the Diamond Sutra), produced the worlds first print culture. Western printing presses, although introduced in the 16th century, were not widely used in China until the 19th century. China, along with Korea, was one of the last countries to adopt them.
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