Eliza has severe hearing loss and wears two hearing aids.

伊莱莎有重度的听力损失，双耳戴助听器。

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

去年，FDA 批准了几种助听器为非处方医疗器械。

Well, this is called a hearing aid.

嗯，这叫做助听器。

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

进行完听力试后，这个设备就是个助听器了。

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，试听力，当作助听器使用。

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

你说的助听器让“衰退速度减缓了”，底是什么意思呢？

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

佩戴助听器是种耻辱。

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

伯纳黛特然后说：“我不会戴助听器的。”

And today you're saying, well, you could have a hearing aid.

而且今天你却说，你可以戴助听器。

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

他不戴助听器的程度看起来实太荒唐了。

And when I tried a hearing aid, it was magical.

当我试戴助听器时，那种体验简直神奇。

You know, are you a weaker person if you need a hearing aid?

你知道吗，需要助听器的人就代表听力较弱吗？

And he was not interested in developing a hearing aid.

而且他对开发助听器不感兴趣。

Bernadette: I am not getting a hearing aid.

伯纳黛特：我不要戴助听器。

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， 有时他们需要助听器，尽管很多人并不想要助听器。

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，他有项专利就是助听器。

And if there's an issue, according to this hearing test, you get offered a hearing aid.

如果根据这项听力试发现问题，您将被建议使用助听器。

They want to put it on in the morning, just like I put my hearing aids on in the morning.

他们想早上戴上它，就像我早上戴上助听器样。

Probably not every model of NHS hearing aid but the one I have works with my NHS hearing aid, that's right.

并非所有型号的英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS）助听器都适用， 但我所拥有的这款确实能与我的NHS助听器兼容，没错。

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 8 岁时获得助听器并能够与姐妹们起上学时，生活发生了变化。