Eliza has severe hearing loss and wears two hearing aids.

伊莱莎有重度的听力损失，双耳戴助听。

Last year the FDA approved some hearing aids that can be sold over the counter.

去年，FDA 批准了几种助听为医疗械。

And after the hearing test is completed, the device program will start to be a hearing aid.

在进行完听力测试后，这个设备就是一个助听了。

It works with headphones and it both tests a person's hearing and then becomes a hearing aid.

而且你还可以插上耳机，测试听力，当作助听使用。

So, when you say the hearing aids 'slowed the rate of decline by half, ' what does that mean, exactly?

你说的助听让“衰退速度减缓了一半”，到底是什么意思呢？

There's a stigma attached to wearing a hearing aid.

佩戴助听是一种耻辱。

Bernadette then says, " I am not getting a hearing aid" (aid).

伯纳黛特接着说，“我没有得到助听”（aid）。

Some are prescription hearing aids, and some you can get over-the-counter.

有是助听，有可以通过药购买。

The degree that he goes to not wear a hearing aid seems really ridiculous.

他不戴助听的程度看起来实在太荒唐了。

And he was not interested in developing a hearing aid.

而且他对开发助听不感兴趣。

Bernadette: I am not getting a hearing aid.

伯纳黛特：我没有戴助听。

As people get older, sometimes they need hearing aids, although many people don't want a hearing aid.

随着人们年龄的增长， 有时他们需要助听，尽管很多人并不想要助听。

Now Thomas Edison, some of you may know was also hard of hearing, in fact one of his patents was a hearing aid.

你们可能知道，爱迪生听力不好，事实上，他有一项专利就是助听。

You don't just put a hearing aid in your ear and immediately hear, you know, like a pair of glasses.

您不会只是将助听放入耳中并立即像戴眼镜一样听到声音。

Life changed when she was given a hearing aid at the age of eight and was able to join her sisters at school.

当她在 8 岁时获得助听并能够与姐妹们一起上学时，生活发生了变化。

" Barbie used to be my favourite toy ever. And I actually drew a hearing aid onto my doll. So now we got a doll that has a hearing aid."

罗丝·艾灵·艾利斯     演员芭比娃娃曾是我最喜欢的玩具。当时，我还给我的芭比娃娃画了一个助听。现在我们有了一个戴助听的娃娃。

So if you think of twins, one has lost its hearing and needs some hearing aids, and another one has lost a bit of some sense of touch.

比如说一对双胞胎，其中一个失去了听力，需要一助听，另一个已经失去了一触觉。

Some people in their early stages of hearing loss aren't ready to wear a hearing aid seven days a week, you know, eight hours a day.

有于听力损失早期阶段的人还没有准备好每周 7 天、每天 8 小时佩戴助听。