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Todays word is belittle. It was first used by Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. 今天要谈到的单词是belittle(贬低、轻视)。美国第三任总统托马斯?杰斐逊首次使用这个词。 Many years ago, a French naturalist, the Count de Buffon, wrote some books about natural history. The books were a great success even though some critics did not like them. Some critics said, "Count Buffon is more of a poet than a scientist." 许多年前，法国博物学家布丰伯爵写了一些有关自然史的书。这些书大获成功，尽管有些评论家不喜欢它们。有些人批评说，“布丰伯爵与其说是一个科学家，不如说是一个诗人。 Thomas Jefferson did not like what the Count had said about the natural wonders of the New World. It seemed to Jefferson that the Count had gone out of his way to speak of natural wonders in America as if they were unimportant. 杰斐逊不喜欢伯爵对新大陆自然奇观的说法。在杰弗逊看来，伯爵对美洲自然奇观的描述脱离了他一贯的方式，似乎它们无足轻重。 This troubled Thomas Jefferson. He too was a naturalist, as well as a farmer, inventor, historian, writer and politician. He had seen the natural wonders of Europe. To him, they were no more important than those of the New World. 这让杰弗逊非常气恼。他也是一个博物学家，同时还是农民，发明家，历史学家，作家和政治家。他曾纵览欧洲自然奇观。对他来说，那些并不比新大陆的自然奇观强多少。 | 
