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英语课
By Melinda Smith
Washington
10 August 2007
 


The lives of thousands of Iraqis and U.S. soldiers are changed forever when they lose arms or legs in roadside bomb attacks in Iraq.  When they return home, the wounded American military personnel are often fitted with the latest artificial limbs.  VOA's Melinda Smith has the story of one U.S. Army sergeant 1 who has adapted to a prosthetic hand straight out of science fiction.






Sergeant Arredondo has gained the use of an artificial left hand


Sergeant Arredondo has gained the use of an artificial left hand



Improvised 2 Explosive Devices, or IEDs, explode without warning, and when they do, their victims are killed, or maimed for life. 


Twenty-seven-year-old U.S. Army Sergeant Juan Arredondo was severely 3 injured in 2005 when an IED exploded near his vehicle in Iraq.  He thought he was going to die.


"I told my soldiers, 'Say goodbye to my kids for me.  Tell them I love them'," he recalled.


Sergeant Arredondo was taken to an Army hospital where his life was saved, but not his hand.  He thought his life was ruined. "I was emotionally, physically 4, and mentally just traumatized for a pretty long time.  I just didn't know what to expect.  I was worried about how am I going to take care of my wife and kids?"


Many soldiers in Sergeant Arredondo's condition would be sent to hospitals such as Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.  There soldiers are fitted with prosthetic hands, arms and legs. 


But a new, highly sophisticated bionic hand, recently invented in Britain, is now available. 






The artificial hand is controlled in the same way as a real hand: brain power and muscles


The artificial hand is controlled in the same way as a real hand: brain power and muscles



It looks and almost feels like a real human hand.  The patient's mind sends signals through muscles to little motors inside the prosthetic hand. Sergeant Arredondo is one of the first to use it.


Troy Farnsworth of Hanger 5 Orthopedic Group fitted him with what's called the “I-Limb.”


"As soon as we put it on Juan, he smiled.  It was the 'wow' [exclamation of a pleasant surprise] factor."


Sergeant Arredondo can go shopping, use the bank's ATM, and drive a car.


Jessica Arredondo says the I-Limb has brought life back to her husband. "He's my 'superman’," she says.




n.警官,中士
  • His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
  • How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹?
a.即席而作的,即兴的
  • He improvised a song about the football team's victory. 他即席创作了一首足球队胜利之歌。
  • We improvised a tent out of two blankets and some long poles. 我们用两条毛毯和几根长竿搭成一个临时帐蓬。
adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地
  • He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
  • He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
adj.物质上,体格上,身体上,按自然规律
  • He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服,心绪也很乱。
  • Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
n.吊架,吊轴承;挂钩
  • I hung my coat up on a hanger.我把外衣挂在挂钩上。
  • The ship is fitted with a large helicopter hanger and flight deck.这艘船配备有一个较大的直升飞机悬挂装置和飞行甲板。
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acromastitis
aerodynamic characteristic
aerosol-ether-xylene
Agona Swedru
agreement of results
air target area
Aleko-Kyuyël'
asia pacific economic cooperation (apec)
automatic feed punch
b-blocker
beta fluor
block hole
brush stone separator
Bujanovac
burland
caulotaxis
chloral betaine
cloth hat
concrete placement
contraction semigroup
counting printer
deficit reduction
derbes
digraphic
distributed interactive computing environment
don't matter
dry unit
drying yard
e-travel
El-Aksur
elettaria cardamomums
environmental metaphysics
external government auditor
Fedeshkūh
final shaping
form entry
frobenius endomorphism
gaertner spectrophotometer
gelcap
hyperspheroidal
ion-dipole bond
javacs
kamis
laboulbenia camponoti
Lamphun, Changwat
late-replicating x chromosome
litigant's statement
long bend calking tool
magnetically coded
mirror image polynomial
molecular elevation
mycolytic bacteria
naked bud
nonpooled
nonshiftable
OASP
of no reputation
open coil winding
open-cycle reactor system
oskay
page description language(pdl)
particle exchange
pedrell
Penthanil
physarum pezizoideum
prebored hole
proteinum hydrolysatum
radial plunger oil pump
RAGT
rational transformation group
resources classroom for aboriginal education
right of notary
roar with laughter
rubidazone
sand handling equipment
Sca1p
scraping out cutter
secret-recipe
seine net
shoe-shop
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someone is going places
space satellites
spyler
Steady so!
studify
subexponential
superglass
Surrey Heath
thawing beet
tippeth
toxicogenic saphrophyte
trans lesbian
tree agate
turn sb on to sth
under-performances
UTRA
Vanda coerulescens
variable-area meter
yield the life
yinka