托福写作名人事例素材汇总

在托福写作中，如果大家能够灵活的运用一些名人作为例子，那么能够辅助我们更好地论证我们的观点。因此大家在平时的复习中，还是要多储备这样的素材。小编为大家整理了这部分的内容，供大家参考。

托福写作素材之名人篇：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英国工程师和发明家，他对蒸汽机做出了基础性的改进，使之发展成现代的高压蒸汽机(1769年获得专利)

参考事迹：提起瓦特，大家都可能认为是蒸汽机的发明家，其实早在瓦特之前，已经有比较粗糙的蒸汽机了，不过经过瓦特的改造，效率大大提高，引发了人类历史上第一次技术革命，推动了工业革命的运行。因为蒸汽机，瓦特从一个一贫如洗的穷小子成了名利双收的人物，他在11年里就获得了76,000 英镑专利税，为了保护自己的专利，他到晚年显得非常不爽，经常到法院起诉，阻止和压制别人的发明，甚至不许自己的助手去试验用蒸汽发动四轮车。这是一个科学家的悲剧，不过对GRE考生来说是好事情，找着专家批了!

轶事：小时候看到一壶水开了，蒸汽把壶盖冲的扑扑跳，这种常人司空见惯的现象却引起了小瓦特的浓厚兴趣，目不转睛的盯着水壶，忘了把它提下来，为此被大人说成"懒孩子"

利用点："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." 以及所有专家，权威的话题。知道成功，不知道怎么利用成功?

托福写作素材之名人事迹篇：华盛顿 ( Washington)

华盛顿 ( 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.

参考事迹：美国开国元勋。胜利后别人拥戴他当国王，不干，并辞去总司令职务回乡务农，后来被选上当总统后，干了两届，共八年，坚决拒绝第三次连任，按照他的声望，完全可以一直连任。为此后美国总统连任不得超过三任做出了范例。美国人民心中的NO.1

轶事：如果没有记错，樱桃树的故事是华盛顿搞出来的?

参考点：革命家不能顾及到自己的利益，否则革命不彻底，当头的不能老当头，就算牛也要下来。诚实谦虚不图虚名等品质。

托福写作素材之名人事迹篇：比尔·盖茨

比尔·盖茨

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.

托福写作名人例子万能素材：爱迪生在布罗克顿

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.