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VOA慢速双语精读 | 假如多出一根拇指弹琴，钢琴家们会如何应对

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在弹钢琴时，如果一只手存在两个拇指，钢琴家们会如何应对？他们的大脑会变得混乱吗？额外增加的拇指会为他们的演奏增加一个新维度吗？为了研究这些问题，神经科学家奥尔多·费萨尔和他在伦敦帝国理工学院领导的团队特意开发出了一个机械拇指来进行实验，来瞧瞧他们的实验成果如何…

双语原文

The leader of the project was Professor Aldo Faisal, a neuroscientist at Britain's Imperial College of London.

Being a piano player himself, he said he wondered how his playing ability would be affected if he had an extra finger.

"So I started really with a robotics challenge," Faisal told Reuters news agency.

"Can we build a robotic thumb that can sit on the opposite side of the right hand and play music with it"?

The robotic finger was controlled by electrical signals produced by the foot movements of the piano players.

Faisal said the robotic finger felt very unnatural and was difficult for players to get used to at first.

But after a few hours using the device, he said it almost felt like "an extension of you".

Faisal noted that within an hour of being fitted with the robotic finger, six players had learned to use it effectively with the piano keys.

重点解析

Being a piano player himself, he said he wondered how his playing ability would be affected if he had an extra finger.

作为一名钢琴演奏者，他说他想知道如果他多了一根手指，他的演奏能力会受到什么影响。

长难句分析

1. being a piano player himself，动名词形式作伴随状语，修饰主句中的he。

2. how his ability…，作wonder后的宾语从句。

重点词汇

wonder

v. 想知道；（用于询问时）不知道；感到疑惑；感到惊讶

n. 惊讶；奇迹；能人

例：（作动词） I wonder if this will meet your views.

我不知道这是否会符合你的意图。

（作名词）Oh, what a wonder!

啊, 真是奇迹!

同根词

wonderful adj. 极好的；奇妙的

wondrous adj. 奇妙的；令人惊奇的

wondering adj. 疑惑的；觉得奇怪的

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