英语听力：探索发现 2014-02-12 America's Sex Pioneers 美国的性爱先锋-8

 So, Ben and Deber just decided¹ to live as common long man and wife. With his personal life stabilized², Franklin jumped into the newspaper business. He buys the Pennsylvanian giz and becomes the founding father of another American tradition--- the sex and gossip column. He filled his newspaper with gossip stories about the people of Philadelphia, most of which he made up himself. But he didn't stop there, Franklin also writes fake letters to the editor. One of which came from a letter of a man who caught his wife cheating on him. This man asked Franklin would it be ok if I went to the wife of this man and told her about her husband and my wife, and we hook up? Well, Franklin, in the voice of the editor, then says “well, we turn evil not with evil” in other words, “don't do this bad thing.” Of course, Ben Franklin wrote the letter in the first place, he was just using this to jam up sells.

 

Thanks to his sex field strategy, Franklin is the first newspaper publisher in the American history to turn up profit and becomes the country's first media mougo. This allows him to retire at 1747 and discovered cool stuff. He later hooks up with George Washington and Thomas Jephson who are working on this litter thing called "the American Revolution". And December 1776, Franklin cleverly uses sex to become an American hero.

 

So the column declaim the independence in the summer of 1776, now, decoration of the independence was just words on the page and in order to actually get into independence, they needed guns and troops from France, so they needed an ambassador to send over there to convince the French royal authorities that this revolution against the Fallemanac was a good course to support. Well, it didn't take them too long to realize that Ben Franklin in the perfect man for the job.

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 stabilized   

v.（使）稳定， （使）稳固( stabilize的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The patient's condition stabilized. 患者的病情稳定下来。
• His blood pressure has stabilized. 他的血压已经稳定下来了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》