託福寫作名人事例素材彙總

在託福寫作中，如果大家能夠靈活的運用一些名人作爲例子，那麼能夠輔助我們更好地論證我們的觀點。因此大家在平時的複習中，還是要多儲備這樣的素材。小編爲大家整理了這部分的內容，供大家參考。

託福寫作素材之名人篇：瓦特 (Watt)

瓦特 (Watt)

British engineer and inventor who made fundamental improvements in the steam engine, resulting in the modern, high-pressure steam engine (patented 1769).瓦特，詹姆斯1736-1819英國工程師和發明家，他對蒸汽機做出了基礎性的改進，使之發展成現代的高壓蒸汽機(1769年獲得專利)

參考事蹟：提起瓦特，大家都可能認爲是蒸汽機的發明家，其實早在瓦特之前，已經有比較粗糙的蒸汽機了，不過經過瓦特的改造，效率大大提高，引發了人類歷史上第一次技術革命，推動了工業革命的運行。因爲蒸汽機，瓦特從一個一貧如洗的窮小子成了名利雙收的人物，他在11年裏就獲得了76,000 英鎊專利稅，爲了保護自己的專利，他到晚年顯得非常不爽，經常到法院起訴，阻止和壓制別人的發明，甚至不許自己的助手去試驗用蒸汽發動四輪車。這是一個科學家的悲劇，不過對GRE考生來說是好事情，找着專家批了!

軼事：小時候看到一壺水開了，蒸汽把壺蓋衝的撲撲跳，這種常人司空見慣的現象卻引起了小瓦特的濃厚興趣，目不轉睛的盯着水壺，忘了把它提下來，爲此被大人說成"懶孩子"

利用點："The people who make important contributions to society are generally not those who develop their own new ideas, but those who are most gifted at perceiving and coordinating the talents and skills of others." 以及所有專家，權威的話題。知道成功，不知道怎麼利用成功?

託福寫作素材之名人事蹟篇：華盛頓 ( Washington)

華盛頓 ( Washington)

American military leader and the first President of the United States (1789-1797). Commander of the American forces in the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), he presided over the Second Constitutional Convention (1787) and was elected President of the fledgling country (1789). He shunned partisan politics and in his farewell address (1796) warned against foreign involvement.

參考事蹟：美國開國元勳。勝利後別人擁戴他當國王，不幹，並辭去總司令職務回鄉務農，後來被選上當總統後，幹了兩屆，共八年，堅決拒絕第三次連任，按照他的聲望，完全可以一直連任。爲此後美國總統連任不得超過三任做出了範例。美國人民心中的NO.1

軼事：如果沒有記錯，櫻桃樹的故事是華盛頓搞出來的?

參考點：革命家不能顧及到自己的利益，否則革命不徹底，當頭的不能老當頭，就算牛也要下來。誠實謙虛不圖虛名等品質。

託福寫作素材之名人事蹟篇：比爾·蓋茨

比爾·蓋茨

Bill Gates 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.

託福寫作名人例子萬能素材：愛迪生在布羅克頓

Thomas Edison in Brockton

As a young man, Edison had worked as an electrical technician for George Field_a distant relative and friend of Daniel Field?s farther. Although the relationship between George Field and the often rash Edison had been notoriously strained, Daniel Field was one of the first to cordially welcome the now famous inventor to Brockton to construct his branch. It didn?t take long, however, before the idealistic Field and the pragmatic Edison found them on a collision course on an issue that would make environmental history.

Although he was a tough-minded world class entrepreneur, Field was also a deeply committed, self-styled urban conservationist. “Somehow, he never had a problem in blending his lasting love of nature and community with his absolute faith in ?pure? capitalism.” He never wavered in his belief that “A city requires an abundance of natural and architectural beauty and goodness in order for its inhabitants to be truly happy.”

One Edison?s crew indicated that the branches of a number of the beautiful elm trees in the downtown area needed to be heavily trimmed to accommodate a

2000-foot extension cord, Field was asked to lead an opposition movement. Recalling how “decaying” layers of telegraph wires, arc light wires, and telephone wires were such a blight in New York City, Field and others argued that Edison was about to “introduce similar havoc” in Brockton.

Regardless of the strong civic challenge led by the impassioned 28-year-old Field, Edison did not immediately change his plans. The cost of his Brockton branch of the Edison Ⅲemanating Light Company was over budgeted ····· “The firm had already spent more than half firm had already spent more than half of its allotted resources on the facility.” Accordingly, he promptly dropped the issue into the hands of Garrison.

Garrison was a highly articulate author and part-time actor. Edison greatly valued his unusual ability to win over an audience with humor and satire. On one occasion a group of local hecklers from the gas company tried to convince an audience that the “mad wizard from New Jersey was about to blow up the whole village,” Garrison readily turned the tables and made them the laughing stock. Nonetheless, Garrison was hindered in his efforts to allay the local public?s concern over the impact form Edison?s proposed plan to use above-ground wiring. Field?s warning that "····· a river of copper would cut through the branches of our ancient elm trees and eventually darken the blue sky over our beautiful village ···” was seared into the public mindset.

The result was that, even though the decision involved a number of untested changes, Edison agreed to hide the one inch diameter cable at least 2 feet below ground. It was a decision that made his unique Brockton Standardized System even more singular than originally designed. For the first time in history, it combined the high energy efficiency associated with type H (three-wire) generation and distribution with the aesthetics associated with subterranean wiring.

Finally, by mid-September of 1883, the remarkable Brockton operation was ready to go into service, The circuit, which involved 150 of Edison?s lastes “600-hour 10-candle-watt bulbs,” was connected to more than a dozen retail establishments, including a barber shop and a popular billiard hall that had formerly used “buzzing and blinking” arc lights. On October 1, thirty-seven-year-old Edison and a troupe of famous associates arrived. By train, from Boston to oversee the first official use of “his latest and most remarkable contrivance.”

By 5 P. M —even though the event had not been publicized — a relatively large crowd had gathered at the School plant. They anxiously watched as Edison and his assistants tinkered with the wires, batteries and huge dynamos. At 6:15 P.M., after being “rather spontaneously introduced to the onlookers,” Edison stepped over to the panel and threw the master switch.