英语美文名人励志故事24:拉兹洛J.拜罗和雷洛发明实用圆珠笔的故事
24. Laszlo J.Biro and Reynold, Inventors of Workable Ball Pens
24. 拉兹洛J.拜罗和雷洛——实用圆珠笔的发明者
The ballpoint pen is a very popular thing for writing. But few people know how and when it came into being.
圆珠笔是一个很流行的书写工具。但是很少有人知道它是怎样以及何时被发明的。
Early in 1888, John Lawd made a pen with which to write on paper. He called it a ballpoint pen because it was a pen with a very small ball housed in the socket at the tip. But this ballpoint pen leaked and the ball couldn't turn freely in the socket. Thus it was almost of no use.
在1888年早期，约翰·洛特制作了一支用于在纸上进行书写的笔。他称它为圆珠笔，因为在笔的夫将穴孔处有一个小小的球。但是这支圆珠笔漏油而且小球不能在穴孔中自由翻转。因此这支笔几乎毫无用处。
Nearly half a century passed, Laszlo J.Biro, a Hungarian living in Argentina made a ballpoint pen. Biro studied John's ballpoint pens carefully and did a lot of experiments to improve them. At last he succeeded in producing the first workable ball pen, which had a much thinner socket and a freely turning ball.
将近半个世纪过去后，一位住在阿根廷的匈牙利人拉兹洛j拜罗制造了一支圆珠笔。拜罗仔细研究了约翰的圆珠笔，做了很多实验来对它们进行提高。最后，他成功地生产了第一支可以使用的圆珠笔，这支圆珠笔有一个更为细小的穴孔，一个自由转动的球。
However, the ballpoint pens we use now were, in fact, improved by Reynold in 1945. They were greatly improved on the balls and ink. Thus ballpoint pens became fitter for us. People like to use ballpoint pens because they don't leak at all; they can hold enough ink to last a long time and the quick-drying ink can't be easily affected by the changes of climate.
然而，实际上，我们目前使用的圆珠笔是经雷诺在1945年改进后的。它们在顶端的小球和墨水上都有了极大的改进。这样圆珠笔对我们来说更加适合使用。人们喜欢使用圆珠笔是因为它们一点儿都不会泄露;它们可以装足够多的墨水来维持很长一段时间，而且这种快干的墨水不会由于气候变化而轻易发生改变。
