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I've chosen to wear this arm everyday, so maybe I didn't learn quite enough lesson from an electrical shock because I still wear an electrical arm.
我每天都戴这只手臂，也许我没有从电击中学到足够的教训，因为我仍然戴着一只电动手臂。
Okay. All right. Good for another ten thousand miles. Yeah. Great.
可以。好吧。再跑一万英里也行。是啊。太棒了。
The modern world would be inconceivable without electricity.
在现代世界，没有电简直无法想象。
In eight hours a man used to hard work and continuously exert one-tenth of a horsepower, but the same amount of work can be done by an electrical motor in a fraction of the time.
一个人过去常常在8个小时内努力工作，并不断地施加十分之一马力，但同样数量的功可以用一台电动机在很短的时间内完成。
Electricity as a harnessed power has no rival.
作为一种可利用的能源，电力没有竞争对手。
It is clean, silent and can be turned on and off instantly.
它是清洁的，静音的，可以立即打开和关闭。
Worldwide there are still two billion people who exist without electrical power.
全世界仍有20亿人没有电力供应。
Most are located in remote places like the Brazilian village of Boa Sorche.
他们中的大多数都位于偏远的地方，比如巴西的Boa Sorche村。
Too isolated to receive power from the country's grid, the residents live without the electrical inventions of the 20th Century and without conveniences like medical vaccines that need refrigeration, electric motors or clean running water.
由于与外界隔绝，无法从国家电网获得电力，当地居民无法获取20世纪的电气发明，也没有需要冷藏的医疗疫苗、电机或清洁自来水等便利设施。
The villagers use contaminated surface water which was funneled from the springs to the local watering hole.
村民们使用被污染的地表水，这些水是从泉水流入当地的水坑的。
The only clean water was buried deep beneath the Earth.
唯一清洁的水埋在地下深处。
An electrical pump was needed to get the water to the surface.
需要一个电泵来抽水。
To solve this problem the governments of Brazil and the U.S. joined forces to provide electricity by harnessing the sun's energy.
为了解决这个问题，巴西政府和美国政府联合起来，利用太阳能来提供电力。
Putting up power poles and lines is so expensive that actually photovoltaic energy is much cheaper here than using traditional forms of fuel.
架设电线杆和电线是如此昂贵，以至于这里的光伏能源比使用传统形式的燃料便宜得多。
Photovoltaic cells or solar panels convert energy radiated by the sun into electricity.
光伏电池或太阳能电池板将太阳辐射的能量转化为电能。
Clean, renewable power that villages like this can afford.
像这样的村庄能负担得起的清洁、可再生能源。
