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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
