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。

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，测试听力，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“衰退速度减缓了半”，到底什么意思呢？

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

戴助听器种耻辱。

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

伯纳黛特接着说，“我没有得到助听器”（aid）。

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

有些处方助听器，有些可以通过非处方药购买。

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在太荒唐了。

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：我没有戴助听器。

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，他有项专利助听器。

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

您不会只将助听器放入耳中并立即像戴眼镜样听到声音。

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 岁时获得助听器并能够与姐妹们起上学时，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     演员芭比娃娃曾我最喜欢的玩具。当时，我还给我的芭比娃娃画了个助听器。现在我们有了个戴助听器的娃娃。

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.

比如说对双胞胎，其中个失去了听力，需要些助听器，另个已经失去了些触觉。

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.

有些处于听力损失早期阶段的人还没有准备好每周 7 天、每天 8 小时戴助听器。