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I've chosen to wear this arm everyday, so maybe I didn't learn quite enough lesson from an electrical shock because I still wear an electrical arm.
我每天都戴這只手臂，也許我沒有從電擊中學到足夠的教訓，因為我仍然戴著一只電動手臂。
Okay. All right. Good for another ten thousand miles. Yeah. Great.
可以。好吧。再跑一萬英里也行。是啊。太棒了。
The modern world would be inconceivable without electricity.
在現代世界，沒有電簡直無法想象。
In eight hours a man used to hard work and continuously exert one-tenth of a horsepower, but the same amount of work can be done by an electrical motor in a fraction of the time.
一個人過去常常在8個小時內努力工作，并不斷地施加十分之一馬力，但同樣數量的功可以用一臺電動機在很短的時間內完成。
Electricity as a harnessed power has no rival.
作為一種可利用的能源，電力沒有競爭對手。
It is clean, silent and can be turned on and off instantly.
它是清潔的，靜音的，可以立即打開和關閉。
Worldwide there are still two billion people who exist without electrical power.
全世界仍有20億人沒有電力供應。
Most are located in remote places like the Brazilian village of Boa Sorche.
他們中的大多數都位于偏遠的地方，比如巴西的Boa Sorche村。
Too isolated to receive power from the country's grid, the residents live without the electrical inventions of the 20th Century and without conveniences like medical vaccines that need refrigeration, electric motors or clean running water.
由于與外界隔絕，無法從國家電網獲得電力，當地居民無法獲取20世紀的電氣發明，也沒有需要冷藏的醫療疫苗、電機或清潔自來水等便利設施。
The villagers use contaminated surface water which was funneled from the springs to the local watering hole.
村民們使用被污染的地表水，這些水是從泉水流入當地的水坑的。
The only clean water was buried deep beneath the Earth.
唯一清潔的水埋在地下深處。
An electrical pump was needed to get the water to the surface.
需要一個電泵來抽水。
To solve this problem the governments of Brazil and the U.S. joined forces to provide electricity by harnessing the sun's energy.
為了解決這個問題，巴西政府和美國政府聯合起來，利用太陽能來提供電力。
Putting up power poles and lines is so expensive that actually photovoltaic energy is much cheaper here than using traditional forms of fuel.
架設電線桿和電線是如此昂貴，以至于這里的光伏能源比使用傳統形式的燃料便宜得多。
Photovoltaic cells or solar panels convert energy radiated by the sun into electricity.
光伏電池或太陽能電池板將太陽輻射的能量轉化為電能。
Clean, renewable power that villages like this can afford.
像這樣的村莊能負擔得起的清潔、可再生能源。
