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62.Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
62.《独立宣言》是谁起草的？
Answer: (Thomas) Jefferson
答案：托马斯·杰弗逊
Explanation: There is a funny story that shows how many Americans think of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
解释：有一个趣闻表明许多美国人是怎么看美国第三任总统托马斯·杰弗逊的。
One day, President John F. Kennedy (our thirty-fifth president) was in the White House, which is the building where the U.S. president lives.
有一天，肯尼迪总统（我们的第35任总统）在白宫，也就是美国总统居住的宅邸。
He was there with 49 Nobel Prize winners.
他在那接见49位诺贝尔奖得主。
(The Nobel Prize is an award given to people who have done very important work in different fields all over the world.)
（诺贝尔奖是授给世界上在不同领域内做出最重大贡献的人的奖项。）
President Kennedy said that this was the greatest group of human knowledge and talent that had ever been together in the White House, except when Thomas Jefferson ate there alone.
肯尼迪总统表示，这是最多的天分和人类知识在白宫相聚——除了当年杰斐逊独自在这里吃饭的时候。
This was his funny way of saying that Thomas Jefferson was a great man in American history who was good at many things, much more than other people, even a group of some of the world's smartest people!
这是他称托马斯·杰弗逊为美国史上的伟人的有趣方式，杰弗逊多才多艺，远远超过了其他人，甚至是一群世界上最聪明的人！
Thomas Jefferson is famous for many things.
托马斯·杰弗逊以诸多事情而闻名。
He was the second vice-president and the third president of the United States, but he is even better known for having written the Declaration of Independence, or the letter that was written to let Great Britain know that its colonies had become the United States, an independent country.
他是美国的第二任副总统和第三任总统，但他更为知名的是起草了《独立宣言》，或者说是让大不列颠知道其殖民地已成为美国——一个独立的国家的文告。
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