A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal | Anushka Naiknaware
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翻译人员: Hong Li
校对人员: Yuntao Li
00:12
Ever since I was a young girl,
I was always fascinated --
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我从小就非常好奇——
00:16
(Laughter)
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(笑声)
哦!
00:17
Oh!
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00:18
(Laughter)
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(笑声)
00:21
OK, I meant younger and more short.
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好吧,我是说更年轻,更矮的时候。
00:23
(Laughter)
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(笑声)
00:24
If that's possible to imagine.
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如果你可以想象到的话。
00:27
But ever since I was a young girl,
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从我还是个小姑娘的时候开始,
00:29
I was always fascinated with how
the world worked exactly how it did.
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我就对这个世界
是如何运转感到非常好奇。
00:34
So this, very early on,
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这一点让我从很早开始,
00:36
led me to the fields
of mathematics and chemistry.
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就对数学和化学很感兴趣。
00:41
I would keep going further and further,
and as I kept going,
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我努力学习,而随着学习的深入,
00:45
I realized that all the fields
of science are interconnected.
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我意识到所有科学领域
都是互相关联的。
00:48
And without one, the others
have little or no value.
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如果离开某一学科,其他的学科的价值
就会大大下降,甚至毫无价值。
00:54
So, inspired by Marie Curie
and my local science museum,
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于是,受居里夫人
和我老家的科学博物馆的启发,
00:58
I decided to start asking
these questions myself
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我决定开始在我家的车库里,
或者我的卧室中
01:01
and engage in my own independent research,
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思考这些问题,
01:04
whether it be out
of my garage or my bedroom.
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并进行独立研究。
01:08
I started reading journal papers,
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我开始阅读期刊论文,
01:10
started doing science competitions,
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参加科学竞赛,
01:12
started participating in science fairs,
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参加科学展会,
01:15
doing anything I could
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用尽一切办法
01:17
to get the knowledge
that I so desperately wanted.
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获取我渴望的知识。
01:21
So while I was studying anatomy
for a competition,
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有一次为了参加竞赛,
我开始研究解剖学,
01:25
I came across the topic
of something called chronic wounds.
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我遇到了一个名词,
叫长期性伤口。
01:30
And one thing that stood out
to me was a statistic
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引起我注意的是一项数据统计,
01:34
that said that the number of people
in the United States with chronic wounds
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在美国有长期性伤口的人数
01:39
exceeds the number of people
with breast cancer,
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比患乳腺癌,
结肠癌、肺癌和白血病的人
加起来还多。
01:43
colon cancer, lung cancer
and leukemia, combined.
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01:49
Hold up.
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先等一下。
01:51
So what is a chronic wound?
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什么是长期性伤口呢?
01:52
(Laughter)
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(笑声)
01:53
And why haven't I heard
about a 5K walk for chronic wounds,
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我怎么从没听过为支持
长期性伤口患者进行的5公里步行活动,
01:57
why haven't I even heard
about a chronic wound in general?
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甚至从没听过长期性伤口这回事?
02:00
(Laughter)
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(笑声)
02:04
So after I got past
those preliminary questions,
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在我搞清楚这些初级问题之后,
02:07
and one that I will clarify for you,
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我要说清楚一点,
02:09
a chronic wound is essentially
when someone gets a normal wound,
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长期性伤口本质上就是普通的伤口,
02:13
except it fails to heal normally
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只是它无法正常愈合,
02:16
because the patient has some kind
of preexisting condition,
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因为病人在受伤之前
就已经有其他病症会影响愈合,
02:19
which in most cases is diabetes.
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大部分情况是糖尿病。
02:25
So more staggering statistics
were to be found
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随着研究的不断深入,
02:28
as I kept going on in this research.
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我找到了更多令人震惊的数据。
02:31
In the year 2010 alone,
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仅在2010年,
02:32
50 billion dollars were spent worldwide
to treat chronic wounds.
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全球范围内用于治疗长期性伤口的
费用就高达500亿美元。
02:39
In addition, it's estimated
that about two percent of the population
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除此之外,据估计,有2%的人口
02:43
will get a chronic wound
at some point in their lifetime.
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会在一生中的某个时刻
遭遇长期性伤口。
02:46
This was absurd.
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这真的有点难以置信。
02:49
So as I started doing more research,
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于是我开始更深入的研究,
我发现长期性伤口的出现与否
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I found that there was a correlation
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between the moisture level
inside a wound dressing
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与伤口包扎物的潮湿程度
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and the stage of healing
that the chronic wound would be at.
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和伤口治疗所处的
阶段之间存在关联。
03:00
So I decided, why don't I design something
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于是我就想,
为什么不设计一件产品,
03:02
to measure the moisture level
within the wound
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可以测量伤口的湿度,
03:04
so this can help doctors and patients
treat their wounds better.
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就能让医生和病人
更好地对伤口进行治疗。
03:09
And essentially, expedite
the healing process.
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这样一来就能加快治疗进程。
03:13
So that's exactly what I set out to do.
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这就是我决定要做的事情。
03:16
Being a 14-year-old working
out of her garage-turned-lab,
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一个14岁女孩,
在自己家的车库实验室工作,
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I had a lot of constraints.
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面临着许多限制。
03:22
Most being that I wasn't given a grant,
I wasn't given a lot of money,
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最主要的是我没有经费,没什么钱,
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and I wasn't given a lot of resources.
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也没有什么资源。
03:28
In addition, I had
a lot of criteria, as well.
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除此之外,我的设计
还需要符合许多标准。
03:32
Since this product would be
readily interacting with the body,
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因为这个产品需要跟人体发生作用,
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it had to be biocompatible,
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因此它必须具备生物兼容性,
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it also had to be low-cost,
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而且成本要低,
03:40
as I was designing it
and paying for it myself.
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因为我是自己设计并自费生产。
03:44
It also had to be mass-manufacturable,
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而且它还需要能够量产,
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because I wanted it to be made
anywhere, for anyone.
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因为我想让它能
在任何地方生产,人人都能使用。
03:51
Thus, I drafted up a schematic.
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因此,我画了个示意图。
03:53
What you see on the left hand-side
is the early schematics in my design,
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左手边的图是我早期的设计,
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showing both a bird's-eye view
and also one stacking variant.
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同时显示了鸟瞰图和堆叠变体。
04:03
A stacking variant means
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堆叠变体的意思是,
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that the entire product is consisted
of different individual parts
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整个产品由不同的独立部分组成
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that have to work in unison.
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需要协同发挥作用。
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And what's shown there
is one possible arrangement.
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图上显示的是某种可行的方案。
04:18
So what exactly is this?
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那这些到底是什么呢?
04:20
So I had gone on to testing my sensors
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我对我的传感器进行了实验,
04:22
and as all scientists have
stumbles along their work,
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但凡科学家,总会遇到挫折,
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I also had a couple of problems
in my first generation of sensors.
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我也不例外,第一代
传感器出现了不少问题。
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First of all, I couldn't figure out
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首先,我想不出好办法
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how to get a nanoparticle ink
into a printcheck cartridge
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把纳米墨水精确地
注入打印墨盒里面,
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without spilling it all over my carpet.
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而不会撒得地毯上到处都是。
04:36
That was problem number one.
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这是第一个问题。
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Problem number two was,
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第二个问题,
04:40
I couldn't exactly control
the sensitivity of my sensors.
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我没法控制传感器的灵敏度。
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I couldn't scale them up or down,
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无法将它调高或者调低,
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I couldn't really do
anything of that sort.
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一点办法都没有。
我要想办法解决问题。
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So I wanted something to solve it.
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04:49
Problem one was easily solved
by some scouting on eBay and Amazon
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第一个问题很容易,
我搜了一下易趣网和亚马逊,
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for syringes that I could use.
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找到了我可以用的注射器。
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Problem two, however,
required a lot more thought.
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第二个问题就需要
更多的思考来解决了。
04:57
So this is where this factors in.
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下面就是我要谈的。
05:00
So what a space-filling curve does
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所谓的空间填充曲线,
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is it aims to take up all the area it can
within one unit square.
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其目标是占据一个
平方单位内所有的空间。
05:06
And by writing a computer program,
you can have different iterations
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通过编写计算机程序,
你可以得到以不同方式重复的
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of the different curve,
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不同曲线,
05:12
which increasingly get close
to one unit square,
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它们会越来越接近
填满一个平方单位,
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but never quite reaches there.
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但永远也无法完全填满。
05:18
So now I could control
the thickness, the size,
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于是我就可以控制它的厚度、尺寸,
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I could do whatever I want with it,
and I could predict my results.
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做我想做的一切,
也可以对结果进行预测。
05:25
So I started constructing my sensors
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于是我开始制造我的传感器
05:27
and testing them more rigorously,
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并且更严格地测试,
05:30
using money that I had gotten
from previous science fair awards.
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实验花费来自我以前
参加科学展会的奖金。
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Lastly, I had to connect this data
in order to be read.
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最后,我需要建立输出,让数据可读。
05:38
So I interfaced it with a Bluetooth chip,
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于是我用蓝牙芯片做了个交互界面,
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which you can see here
by the app screenshots on the right.
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就是右边的应用截屏的样子。
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And what this does is that anyone
can monitor the progress of their wound,
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它可以让我们
监控自己伤口愈合的过程,
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and it can be transmitted
over a wireless connection
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也可以通过无线连接的方式
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to the doctor, the patient
or whoever needs it.
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传给医生、病人或者任何需要的人。
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[Continued Testing and Refinement]
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【持续测试和改进中】
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So in conclusion, my design
was successful --
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总结来说,我的设计是成功的,
06:02
however, science never ends.
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当然,科学永无止尽。
06:06
There's always something to be done,
something to be refined.
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总有事情可以做,总有地方可以改进。
06:09
So that's what I'm currently
in the process of doing.
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这就是我现在正在做的。
06:12
However, what I learned was
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然而,我真正学到的是
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what's more important
than the actual thing I designed
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比起我设计出来的东西,更重要的
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is an attitude that I had
taken on while doing this.
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是我在这过程中所持的态度。
06:22
And that attitude was,
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这个态度就是,
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even though I'm a 14-year-old
working in her garage
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尽管我是一个14岁的孩子,
在自己家的车库中工作,
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on something that she doesn't
completely understand,
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做的也是自己不完全懂的事情,
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I could still make a difference
and contribute to the field.
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但我还是能做出点成绩,
对这个领域有所贡献。
06:35
And that's what inspired me to keep going,
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这一点鼓励我继续前进,
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and I hope it inspires many others
to also do work like this
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我也希望能鼓励更多的人
来做同样的事情,
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even though they're not
very sure about it.
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尽管他们对此还不太确定。
06:45
So I hope that's a message
that you all take on today.
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这就是我今天想
传递给大家的信息。
06:48
Thank you.
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谢谢大家。
06:49
(Applause)
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(掌声)
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