Voice 1: Then one day, Ram 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 fixed, 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!
聲音1:后來有一天,拉姆騎自行車前往醫院。他在騎行時壓到了馬路上一個尖的東西。這使他的自行車輪胎破了個洞。輪胎漏氣了。他在補胎時突然想到了一個主意。輪胎是用橡膠做的。橡膠很輕,同時又很堅固。還可以使用很長時間。對正在試圖制造假腳的拉姆來說,橡膠是最適合的材料!
Voice 2: Ram Chandra and Dr Sethi started to work with this new idea. The result was the 'Jaipur Foot'. The basic foot and the toes are made from separate blocks of rubber. The ankle 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.
聲音2:拉姆·錢德拉和塞提醫生開始用這個新想法展開工作。結果他們創造了“齋浦爾足”。足部和腳趾用不同的橡膠塊制作。腳踝用木頭制成。足部的不同部分用制成橡膠的材料結合在一起,就是那種使輪胎變得堅固的材料。最后在整個足部和腳踝上覆上橡膠保護層,使它看上去像人類皮膚。
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 learned 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.
聲音1:“齋浦爾足”現在應用于全世界許多國家。它非常受歡迎,因為制造原料很容易找到。許多人學會了如何制造假腳。最重要的是,這些假腳的價格很便宜,還不到30美元!在第一只“齋浦爾足”被制造出來以前,常見的假腳要花費數千美元。很少有人能買得起。但是現在,有數千人擁有了“齋浦爾足”。
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