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CRI听力:Hearing Aid Remote Correction

2011-07-12来源:CRI

短语讲解:

1. Deaf children in the remote Samoan Islands are able to benefit from inner ear transplants of tiny hearing aids - high tech devices that need regular, expert monitoring.

benefit from通过…获益
例句:He thought he would benefit from going to school.
他认为上学对他有好处。

2. Now, a small but growing number of deaf children in Samoa have been given the opportunity to receive cochlear implants and ongoing support from specialists in Australia, a procedure which meant regular and expensive trips back and forth - until now.

back and forth来回地
例句:The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.
风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。

3. Thanks to the recent growth of fast broadband internet in Samoa, and a newly-devised system for remotely mapping cochlear implants, Samoa's implant recipients no longer have to make multiple trips to Australia.

thanks to幸亏, 多亏, 由于
例句:Thanks to you, I was saved from drowning.
幸亏你, 我才没有淹死。
no longer不再, 已不, 不复, 再也不
He was long a famous musician, but he plays no longer.
他成为有名的音乐家已很久了, 但他现在不演奏了。

4. Steve Pascoe is responsible for the system at the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre (SCIC) in the Australian capital, nearly 3,000 miles away from the islands

be responsible for为…负责,形成…的原因
例句:He is responsible for selling and marketing products.
他负责销售和推销产品。

5. So we can basically take control of the laptop, plug the implant in and start programming the device.

take control of控制
例句:Surely she would take control of the situation; after all she was a professional.
她肯定会控制这局面,她毕竟是个行家。
plug in插上
The girl let her mother plug in the TV set.
女孩叫母亲插上电视机的插头。

6. The technology is reliant on a stable high speed broadband connection, a development which has helped remove a huge geographical barrier facing health care in Samoa.

reliant on依靠,依赖
例句:The service has become heavily reliant on government support.
这项服务变得高度依赖政府扶持。

7. Now that the costs of travel have been taken out of the equation, many more could benefit.

now that既然
例句:You ought to have a good rest now that you've finished the work.
既然已完成了工作,你就应该好好休息一下。
take out取出,除去
The doctor has taken my bad tooth out.
医生已拔掉了我的坏牙。