环球慢速英语 假体带来的希望(5)

Voice 1: Far away in the Indian city of Jaipur, another man had been using his unusual talent to design useful things. This man was a sculptor¹ — an artist who could create beautiful images by working with stone. People could see Ram² Chandra's sculptures⁴ in many important buildings around the city.

声音1：在遥远的印度城市斋浦尔，有另一名利用他不同寻常的天赋设计有用物品的男子。这名男子是个雕刻家，他是一位用石头制造出许多美丽形象的艺术家。人们可以在斋浦尔市内的许多重要建筑中看到拉姆·钱德拉的雕塑。

Voice 2: Ram also worked at a local hospital. He would teach patients how to make useful things with their hands. At the hospital, Ram saw many people who had lost the lower⁵ parts of their legs. He wondered if he could use his talent for designing sculptures to help these people. Ram took his ideas to Dr³ Pramod Karan Sethi, who was also working in the hospital. Together the two men tried to design false feet and legs. They used many different materials. But they were not successful.

声音2：拉姆还为当地一家医院工作。他教患者如何用双手制造有用的东西。拉姆在医院里看到许多失去下半截腿部的人。他不知道自己是否能用他的天赋设计雕刻品来帮助这些人。拉姆把他的想法告诉了在同一家医院工作的帕拉蒙·卡伦·塞提医生。然后这两个男人一起合作，试图设计出假脚和假腿。他们使用了许多材料。但是他们没能成功。

1 sculptor   

n.雕刻家，雕刻家

参考例句：

• A sculptor forms her material.雕塑家把材料塑造成雕塑品。
• The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状。

2 ram   

(random access memory)随机存取存储器

参考例句：

• 512k RAM is recommended and 640k RAM is preferred.推荐配置为512K内存，640K内存则更佳。

3 Dr   

n.医生，大夫；博士(缩)（= Doctor）

参考例句：

• Dr.Williams instructs us in botany.威廉博士教我们植物学。
• The ward of the hospital is in the charge of Dr.Green.医院的这间病房由格林医生负责。

4 sculptures   

n.雕刻( sculpture的名词复数 )；雕刻品；雕刻术；雕塑术

参考例句：

• She creates sculptures out of scrap materials. 她利用废旧材料进行雕塑创作。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He asked one of his helpers to borrow some hammers and tear down the Buddhist sculptures. 他吩咐帮手去借几个铁锤，让原先几座塑雕委曲一下。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文

5 lower   

adj.较低的；地位较低的，低等的；低年级的；下游的；vt.放下，降下，放低；减低

参考例句：

• Society is divided into upper,middle and lower classes.社会分为上层、中层和下层阶级。
• This price is his minimum;he refuses to lower it any further.这个价格是他开的最低价，他拒绝再作任何降价。