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Stephen wasn't willing to accept that he wasn't going to speak again.
史蒂芬不愿意接受他不能說話了
and he thought he would be giving in by trying to find a method of communicating other than speech.
他想他會做出讓步 如果找到一種比說話更好的交流方式
I remember I went in one evening and this was the first time that he asked to be gotten out of bed to use the computer.
我記得有個晚上我過去 這是第一次他想 起床用電腦
Sometimes they'd sit him up so he wasn't lying in bed all the time
有時他們會讓他坐著 因為他不能總是躺著
as you do with a patient, but this time when I turned up
就像你對待一個病人一樣 但是這次當我出現的時候
he asked the nurse, could he be gotten out of bed so he could use the computer, and he did.
他問護士 能不能讓他起床 那樣他可以用電腦 而且他做到了
I remember the first thing he typed on there after saying hello
打完招呼之后 我記得他打在電腦上第一句話是
Stephen's always very polite about things like that was, Will you help me finish my book?
史蒂芬總是那么地禮貌 你愿意幫助我完成我的書嗎
A computer expert in California heard of my plight and sent me a computer program called Equalizer.
加州的一位電腦專家 聽說了我的近況 發給我一個電腦程序 叫做均衡器
This allowed me to select words from a series of menus on a screen by pressing a switch in my hand.
它可以讓我從屏幕上的一系列的選項中 選擇單詞 通過按我手中開關
These words could then be sent to a speech synthesizer attached to my wheelchair.
這些單詞再發給一個 裝在輪椅上的語音合成器
Much to my surprise I found I was able to communicate much better than before.
令我驚喜的是 我發現我能夠 比以前更好地進行交流了
