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Engineer Roger Taylor, is part of the electrification initiative in Brazil.
工程師羅杰·泰勒是巴西電氣化計劃的工作人員之一。
In this particular village they're going to change by having the school accessible at night.
在這個村莊里，他們要做的是讓人們在晚上可以出入學校。
The health clinic will certainly be able to store vaccines and provide more immediate health services.
衛(wèi)生診所肯定能夠儲存疫苗，并提供更及時的衛(wèi)生服務。
And, the water pumping system here, particularly since it's so deep, will provide very pure or very clean filtered water.
而且這里的抽水系統(tǒng)，可以提供非常純凈或非常干凈的過濾水，因為它很深。
The joint effort will set up four different systems here.
他們將共同努力將在這里建立四個不同的系統(tǒng)。
The largest will power an electric water pump for the well.
最大的發(fā)電機將為這口井的電動水泵供電。
Water pumping takes a fair amount of energy in this case because the well is fairly deep, the well here.
在這種情況下，抽水需要相當多的能量，因為這里的井很深。
We will put the pump at about a hundred meters down in the ground, so it takes a lot of energy to pump that water up, up to the top.
我們將把水泵放在地下大約100米的地方，所以把水抽上來需要很大的能量。
When a solar panel is put out into the sun, the materials within it release electrons and produce electricity.
當一塊太陽能電池板被放在太陽下時，里面的物質釋放出電子并產生電能。
In Boa Sorche the panels are being connected to a pump.
在Boa Sorche村，面板被連接到一個泵上。
When the system is up and running, the electric current and water will flow.
當系統(tǒng)啟動并運行時，電流和水就會流動。
On May 26th, 1997, the village turned on the power.
1997年5月26日，村里通了電。
Technological advancements that took a hundred years to develop arrived here with the flick of a switch.
花了100年才發(fā)展起來的技術進步，隨著一個開關的輕觸來到這里。
And, so now it will be very interesting to see once they have the basic standard of living that many people in the rest of the world enjoy.
因此，現(xiàn)在我們將會看到非常有趣的一幕，他們擁有了世界上許多人所享受的基本生活水平。
How their lives and their culture will evolve from that.
他們的生活和文化將發(fā)生怎樣的變化。
More and more aspects of our world depend on electrons in motion.
我們的世界越來越多地依賴于運動中的電子。
They flow through countless switches and machines.
它們流經(jīng)無數(shù)的開關和機器。
They flow through our bodies and brains.
它們流經(jīng)我們的身體和大腦。
They can even start life.
他們甚至可以開啟生命。
So, in a test tube you can make life-like things, molecules, with electric sparks.
在試管中，你可以用電火花打造出栩栩如生的東西和分子。
When researchers and stockmen had cloned a sheep named Dolly a tiny spark of electricity was used to fuse cells and start the egg growing into an embryo.
當研究人員和畜牧工人克隆出一只名為多利的綿羊時，一個微小的電火花被用來融合細胞，并使卵子開始生長為胚胎。
All this started with a curious fellow back in 1752.
這一切都是因為1752年時的那個好奇的家伙。
That was when a man with a key and a kite stepped out into a storm.
那時，一個拿著鑰匙和風箏的人沖進了暴風雨中。
He snatched lightning from the heavens and introduced electricity to mankind.
他從天上奪走閃電，將電引入到人類的生活之中。
