(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
Recovering strength and movement after an injury often involves physical therapy. Physical therapists help patients with brain or bone injuries regain control of their muscles. Exercising muscles is an important part of the rehabilitation process. Therapists use balls and boards to improve balance, stretchy bands to increase strength and other exercises.
But a Polish technology company Egzotech has developed a robot called Luna, to make those exercises interactive. Luna can help therapists choose the best exercises for their patients. The robot also provides therapists with information about their patients' progress.
Luna uses electromyography, or EMG, to identify electrical currents as patients bend their arms or legs. Michal Mikulski is the chief executive officer of Egzotech. He says detecting muscle tension not immediately visible to the human eye can help therapists design better exercises.
"We reach a certain stage of disease development...when the muscle tension is not even visible. But these signals can still be seen on our machines. Luna is still able to detect them. And based on that, when the brain sends a signal to the muscle to flex, even though we don't see it, Luna is still able to detect it. It detects these signals and causes the movement of the limb, as if it were performed naturally."
Luna can also make therapy fun for children who often get bored with repeated movements. Luna permits them to play games without knowing that they are exercising their muscles.
"Sometimes it is a spacecraft, sometimes shooting balls, sometimes flying a dragon. In any case, a child wants to win a game, wants to compete, but in fact they are exercising."
Luna is just a prototype. But Egzotech expects to have other robots ready for sale later this year.
I'm Jonathan Evans.
词汇解释
1.rehabilitation n.翻修；复兴；(恢复残疾人正常生活的)康复
He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.
他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
2.flex vt. 折曲；使收缩 vi. 弯曲；收缩 n. 屈曲；电线；松紧带 adj. 弹性工作制的
He slowly flexed his muscles and tried to stand.
他缓慢地活动了一下肌肉，想站起来。
3.prototype n. 原型；标准，模范
Chris Retzler has built a prototype of a machine called the wave rotor.
克里斯·雷兹勒做出了一台叫做波转子的样机。
内容解析
1.Luna can also make therapy fun for children who often get bored with repeated movements.
get bored with 对……感到厌倦
After a while, I began to get bored with my job.
过了一段时间,我开始厌烦这份工作。
If you do not want to get bored with running and do it on autopilot try something new.
而如果你不想对跑步感觉厌烦，就尝试些新东西吧。
参考译文
受伤后恢复力量和运动通常需要进行物理治疗，理疗师帮助大脑或骨骼受伤患者恢复对肌肉的控制。锻炼肌肉是康复过程中的重要部分，理疗师使用各种球和平板来恢复平衡，用弹性带来增加力量，并进行其他锻炼。
波兰科技公司Egzotech开发了名为月神的机器人，使得锻炼过程实现互动。月神帮助理疗师为患者选择最佳的锻炼方法，这款机器人还能为理疗师提供患者康复的信息。
月神使用肌电图描记法(EMG)来识别患者弯曲胳膊和腿时候的电流，米哈尔·米库尔斯基是该公司的首席执行官，他说探测肉眼无法看到的肌张力可以帮助理疗师设计更好的锻炼方法。
“在病情发展到一定阶段，也就是当肌张力还看不到时，我们的机器人就能看到这种信号。月神能够探测到，在此基础上，当大脑向肌肉发出弯曲信号时，即使我们看不到它，月神也能探测到，能探测出这些信号并引起肢体运动，好像是自然进行的那样。”
月神还可以让那些通常对重复运动感到厌倦的孩子找到乐趣，月神让孩子们玩游戏，根本不知道自己在锻炼肌肉。
“有时是航天器，有时是射击球，有时是乘龙飞行，在任何情况下孩子们都希望赢得游戏，希望竞争，事实上他们是在锻炼。”
月神现在只是个雏形，但Egzotech公司期待能于今年晚些时候开发出其他供上市的机器人。
我是乔纳森·伊万斯。
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