Norman Joseph Woodland was born in Atlantic City on Sept. 6, 1921. As a Boy Scout he learned Morse code, the spark that would ignite his invention.
诺曼·约瑟夫·伍德兰(Norman Joseph Woodland)于1921年9月6日出生在亚特兰大。参加童子军时，他曾学习过摩斯密码，这为他日后的发明提供了灵感的火花。
After spending World War II on the Manhattan Project , Mr. Woodland resumed his studies at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia (it is now Drexel University), earning a bachelor’s degree in 1947.
第二次世界大战期间，伍德兰先生参与了“曼哈顿计划”，战后在费城的德雷克赛尔理工学院继续学业，1947年获得学士学位。
As an undergraduate, Mr. Woodland perfected a system for delivering elevator music efficiently. He planned to pursue the project commercially, but his father, who had come of age in “Boardwalk Empire”-era Atlantic City, forbade it: elevator music, he said, was controlled by the mob, and no son of his was going to come within spitting distance.
大学本科期间，伍德兰先生对电梯音乐系统(背景音乐系统)进行了优化，并计划将这一项目商业化，但遭到父亲的反对。他的父亲在“大西洋帝国”时期的亚特兰大市长大，他说电梯音乐是暴民们玩的行当，绝不允许他的孩子涉足这一行业。
The younger Mr. Woodland returned to Drexel for a master’s degree. In 1948, a local supermarket executive visited the campus, where he implored a dean to develop an efficient means of encoding product data. The dean demurred, but Mr. Silver, a fellow graduate student who overheard their conversation, was intrigued. He conscripted Mr. Woodland.
于是，伍德兰先生只得回到德雷克赛尔理工学院继续攻读硕士学位。1948年，当地一家超市的高管来学院参观时，他向院长提出一个请求，希望学院能研发一种高效的产品数据编码系统，院长婉拒了这一请求，不过当时也在就读研究生的希尔沃先生偷听到了他们的谈话，对这一项目很感兴趣，于是邀请伍德兰先生一起进行研发。
An early idea of theirs, which involved printing product information in fluorescent ink and reading it with ultraviolet light, proved unworkable.
他们最初的想法是用荧光墨打印产品信息，然后通过紫外光读取信息，可事实证明这种想法并不可行。
But Mr. Woodland, convinced that a solution was close at hand, quit graduate school to devote himself to the problem. He holed up at his grandparents’ home in Miami Beach, where he spent the winter of 1948-49 in a chair in the sand, thinking.
但是，伍德兰先生确信解决方案就近在咫尺，毅然退学专心攻克这一难关。1948到1949年的那个冬天他寄居在迈阿密海滩的祖父母家，一人坐在沙滩的椅子上冥思苦想。
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