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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说话了

and he thought he would be giving in by trying to find a method of communicating other than speech.

他想他会做出让步 如果找到一种比说话更好的交流方式

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.

我记得有个晚上我过去 这是第一次他想 起床用电脑

Sometimes they'd sit him up so he wasn't lying in bed all the time

有时他们会让他坐着 因为他不能总是躺着

as you do with a patient, but this time when I turned up

就像你对待一个病人一样 但是这次当我出现的时候

he asked the nurse, could he be gotten out of bed so he could use the computer, and he did.

他问护士 能不能让他起床 那样他可以用电脑 而且他做到了

I remember the first thing he typed on there after saying hello

打完招呼之后 我记得他打在电脑上第一句话是

Stephen's always very polite about things like that was, Will you help me finish my book?

史蒂芬总是那么地礼貌 你愿意帮助我完成我的书吗

A computer expert in California heard of my plight and sent me a computer program called Equalizer.

加州的一位电脑专家 听说了我的近况 发给我一个电脑程序 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.

它可以让我从屏幕上的一系列的选项中 选择单词 通过按我手中开关

These words could then be sent to a speech synthesizer attached to my wheelchair.

这些单词再发给一个 装在轮椅上的语音合成器

Much to my surprise I found I was able to communicate much better than before.

令我惊喜的是 我发现我能够 比以前更好地进行交流了

重点讲解

1、communicate

沟通;联系;交流

My natural mother has never communicated with me.

我的亲生母亲从未和我联系过。

Officials of the CIA depend heavily on electronic mail to communicate with each other.

中情局官员之间的联系在很大程度上依赖电子邮件。

传达;传递

They successfully communicate their knowledge to others.

他们成功地把知识传授给他人。

The results will be communicated to parents.

结果会通知父母。

沟通，交流(情感、想法等)

He was never good at communicating with the players.

他不善于和队员们进行沟通。

Family therapy showed us how to communicate with each other.

家庭疗法指导我们彼此之间的沟通交流。

2、turn up

(常指出其不意地或经长久等待后)出现，到来，露面

Richard had turned up on Christmas Eve with Tony.

理查德和托尼在圣诞夜一道露面了。

This is similar to waiting for a bus that never turns up.

这就跟等待一辆永远等不到的公共汽车差不多。

找出;发现;注意到;出现

Investigations have never turned up any evidence.

调查从没发现任何证据。

a very rare 15th-Century spoon, which turned up in an old house in Devon.

在德文郡一座老房子里发现的一把非常珍贵的 15 世纪的勺子

开大，调高(收音机、暖气等)

Bill would turn up the TV in the other room.

比尔会把另一个房间里的电视声音开大。

I turned the volume up.

我调高了音量。