Eliza has severe hearing loss and wears two hearing aids.

伊莱莎有重度力损失，双耳戴助器。

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

去年，FDA 批准了几种助器为非处方医疗器械。

Well, this is called a hearing aid.

嗯，这叫做助器。

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

在进行完力试后，这就是一助器了。

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，试力，当作助器使用。

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

你说助器让“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.

佩戴助器是一种耻辱。

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

伯纳黛特然后说：“我不会戴助器。”

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

而且今天你却说，你可以戴助器。

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

他不戴助器程度看起来实在太荒唐了。

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

当我试戴助器时，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，需要助器人就代表力较弱吗？

And he was not interested in developing a hearing aid.

而且他对开发助器不感兴趣。

Bernadette: I am not getting a hearing aid.

伯纳黛特：我不要戴助器。

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

随着人们年龄增长， 有时他们需要助器，尽管很多人并不想要助器。

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，爱迪生力不好，事实上，他有一项专利就是助器。

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

如果根据这项力试发现问题，您将被建议使用助器。

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，就像我早上戴上助器一样。

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

并非所有型号英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS）助器都适用， 但我所拥有这款确实能与我NHS助器兼容，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.

当她在 8 岁时获得助器并能够与姐妹们一起上学时，生活发生了变化。