7 Chapter 6 Making Moving Pictures

Chapter 6 Making Moving Pictures In 1884, at the height of his success, Tom suffered a terrible loss. His wife Mary died of an illness. She was only twenty-nine years old. Tom had his children stay in New York City. His electricity business was there. He wanted to spend as much time as possible with Marion, now

1884年，正当汤姆事业如日中天的时候，他遭受了一次惨重的损失。 他的妻子玛丽死于疾病。 她只有29岁。 汤姆让他的孩子们留在纽约。 他的电力业务就在那里。 现在，他想尽可能多地和玛丽恩呆在一起

twelve; Thomas, now eight; and little William, who was only five. Then, in 1885, Tom met a young woman named Mina Miller. Her family was from Ohio. Mina's father was a millionaire businessman and inventor who had developed a very successful machine for harvesting grain. He himself received ninety-two patents in his lifetime. Tom fell in love with Mina almost at once. She was interesting and educated. He even taught her Morse code so that they could "talk" to each other secretly, even among friends. It is said that Tom tapped out, "Will you marry me?" on the palm of her hand, and Mina tapped back, "Yes."

12个;托马斯，现在八岁;还有年仅五岁的小威廉。 1885年，汤姆遇到了一位名叫米娜·米勒的年轻女子。 她的家人来自俄亥俄州。米娜的父亲是一位百万富翁商人和发明家，他发明了一种非常成功的收割谷物的机器。 他一生中获得了92项专利。 汤姆几乎立刻就爱上了米娜。 她很有趣，受过良好的教育。 他甚至教她摩斯电码，这样他们就可以秘密地“交谈”，甚至是朋友之间。 据说汤姆在米娜的手掌上轻拍了一下:“你愿意嫁给我吗?”米娜也轻拍了一下:“愿意。”

Mina and Tom were married in 1886 and moved to a grand home, Glenmont, in West Orange, New Jersey. "It is a great deal too nice for me, but it isn't half nice enough for my little wife here," Tom said. Tom and Mina were happy together. He was still at work as much as he had been when Mary was alive. But since Mina's father was also an inventor, perhaps she understood Tom's world better. Still, it wasn't so easy for twenty-year-old Mina to become the young mother of three children. Nor

米娜和汤姆于1886年结婚，并搬到了新泽西州西奥兰治的格兰蒙特豪宅。 “这对我来说是太好了，但对我的小妻子来说还不够好。”汤姆说。 汤姆和米娜在一起很幸福。 他仍然像玛丽在世时那样工作。 但由于米娜的父亲也是一位发明家，也许她更了解汤姆的世界。 然而，对于20岁的米娜来说，成为三个孩子的年轻母亲并不容易。 也不

was it easy for Marion, who was now fourteen and had become a companion to her father. Years later she said Mina "was too young to be a mother to me, but too old to be a chum." Mina and Tom had three children, Madeleine, Charles, and Theodore. Holidays above all were a time when Tom loved being at home with his large family. Mina planned lavish parties for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, but the Fourth of July was all Tom's. Everyone had to go outside very early—even before breakfast—for the fireworks that Tom had made himself. After breakfast and naps for the younger children, they rushed out for more activities, like picnics of watermelon and ice cream, and so it went on into the evening, ending with another enormous display of fireworks.

这对玛丽恩来说容易吗?她现在已经十四岁了，已经成为她父亲的同伴。 多年后，她说米娜“对我来说太年轻，不适合做母亲，但对我来说又太老，不适合做朋友。” 米娜和汤姆有三个孩子，玛德琳、查尔斯和西奥多。 假期里，汤姆最喜欢呆在家里和他的大家庭在一起。 米娜为感恩节、圣诞节和复活节准备了奢华的派对，但7月4日的派对全是汤姆的。 为了放汤姆自己放的烟火，每个人都得很早就出去，甚至在早饭之前就出去了。 吃完早餐，小一点的孩子们小睡一会儿，他们就冲出去做更多的活动，比如野餐西瓜和冰淇淋，就这样一直持续到晚上，最后又一次盛大的烟花表演结束了。

Unlike Mary, Mina loved having company. She gave large dinner parties, which Tom often tried to avoid by pretending to be sick. Their guest book was filled with the names of famous people—airplane pioneer Orville Wright, author and lecturer Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf

不像玛丽，米娜喜欢有人陪伴。 她举办大型宴会，而汤姆常常假装生病来逃避。 他们的留言簿上写满了著名的载人飞机先驱奥维尔·赖特，作家兼讲师海伦·凯勒的名字，她是盲人和聋子