环球慢速英语 假体带来的希望(6)

Voice 1: Then one day, Ram¹ was riding to the hospital on his two-wheel bicycle. He rode over something sharp in the road. It made a hole in the tire. All the air escaped. While he was having the tire fixed², an idea came to him. The tires were made from rubber. They were light and strong. And they lasted a long time. Rubber could be the perfect material for the prosthetic feet that he was trying to create!

声音1：后来有一天，拉姆骑自行车前往医院。他在骑行时压到了马路上一个尖的东西。这使他的自行车轮胎破了个洞。轮胎漏气了。他在补胎时突然想到了一个主意。轮胎是用橡胶做的。橡胶很轻，同时又很坚固。还可以使用很长时间。对正在试图制造假脚的拉姆来说，橡胶是最适合的材料！

Voice 2: Ram Chandra and Dr³ Sethi started to work with this new idea. The result was the 'Jaipur Foot'. The basic foot and the toes are made from separate⁴ blocks of rubber. The ankle⁵ is made of wood. The pieces of the foot are held together by rubber with material in it, like the material that makes tires strong. Finally the whole foot and ankle has a rubber cover that is made to look just like human skin.

声音2：拉姆·钱德拉和塞提医生开始用这个新想法展开工作。结果他们创造了“斋浦尔足”。足部和脚趾用不同的橡胶块制作。脚踝用木头制成。足部的不同部分用制成橡胶的材料结合在一起，就是那种使轮胎变得坚固的材料。最后在整个足部和脚踝上覆上橡胶保护层，使它看上去像人类皮肤。

Voice 1: The Jaipur Foot is now used in many countries of the world. It is popular because the materials used to build it are not hard to find. Many people have learned⁶ how to build these prosthetic feet. Most important of all, they only cost a small amount of money — less than thirty US dollars! Before the first Jaipur Foot was made, a common prosthetic foot cost thousands of dollars. Very few people had enough money to buy one. But today thousands of people have a Jaipur Foot.

声音1：“斋浦尔足”现在应用于全世界许多国家。它非常受欢迎，因为制造原料很容易找到。许多人学会了如何制造假脚。最重要的是，这些假脚的价格很便宜，还不到30美元！在第一只“斋浦尔足”被制造出来以前，常见的假脚要花费数千美元。很少有人能买得起。但是现在，有数千人拥有了“斋浦尔足”。

1 ram   

(random access memory)随机存取存储器

参考例句：

• 512k RAM is recommended and 640k RAM is preferred.推荐配置为512K内存，640K内存则更佳。

2 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

3 Dr   

n.医生，大夫；博士(缩)（= Doctor）

参考例句：

• Dr.Williams instructs us in botany.威廉博士教我们植物学。
• The ward of the hospital is in the charge of Dr.Green.医院的这间病房由格林医生负责。

4 separate   

n.分开，抽印本；adj.分开的，各自的，单独的；v.分开，隔开，分居

参考例句：

• Are they joined together or separate?它们是合在一起还是分开的？
• Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering.洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。

5 ankle   

n.踝，踝节部

参考例句：

• She twisted her ankle when she fell.她摔倒时扭伤了脚踝。
• She turned her ankle while ice-skating.她滑冰时扭伤了脚踝。

6 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。