【精英翻譯】的部落格

精英翻譯轉自https://paper.udn.com/papers.php?pname=POH0054

She was called "The Most Beautiful Woman in Film." However, Hedy Lamarr was so much more than a pretty face. Born in 1914, Lamarr was a famous American film actress. But she also loved inventing things. Even though she had no formal training in science, her ideas helped change the way we connect to the Internet. Without her, Wi-Fi might not exist!

她被譽為「電影界最美的女性」，不過，海蒂‧拉瑪有的可不僅僅是一張漂亮的臉蛋而已。生於1914年的拉瑪，是美國知名的電影女演員，但她也很喜歡發明東西。儘管她沒有接受過正規的科學訓練，她的點子卻改變了我們連接網路的方式，可以說如果沒有她，無線網路可能就不存在了！

Lamarr grew up as an only child, so she got a lot of attention from her father. He was very curious about technology. Together, they would talk for hours about how machines worked. As a result, Lamarr gained a strong interest in the subject. She even began taking apart her toys to see how they fit together.

拉瑪從小到大都是家中的獨生女，所以她的父親對她疼愛有加。拉瑪的父親對科技十分好奇，父女倆會一起討論機器運作方式，一聊就是好幾個數小時。因此，拉瑪對這類主題也產生了濃厚的興趣，她甚至開始拆解自己的玩具，就為了想知道玩具是怎麼組裝起來的。

Even though she later found fame as an actress, she still kept up her interest in inventing. During World War II, she and a friend developed a new method for hiding radio waves. The goal was to stop the enemy from interfering with radio-controlled torpedoes. However, in the end, the U.S. Navy did not use their ideas.

即使她後來是以演員的身分成名，但她仍然保持著對發明的興趣。在第二次世界大戰期間，她和某個朋友開發了一種隱藏無線電波的新方法，其目的是阻止敵人用無線電控制的魚雷進行干擾。不過，美國海軍最後並未採用他們的構想。

Sadly, many years went by before others began to see how important her work was. In time, however, her ideas would go on to inspire many modern technologies, including Wi-Fi. In 2014, 14 years after her death, Lamarr was finally entered into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her great work.

令人惋惜的是，過了很多年以後，大家這才開始明白她的發明有多重要。不過，她的構想繼續啟發許多現代科技，包括無線網路。2014年，也就是她離世的14年後，拉瑪終於因其偉大的發明而登上「美國發明家名人堂」。