CNN新闻听力附文本详解

消失,万物在消失,树干、词的碎片、线条和面孔都在变得越来越么模糊。"消失"这首诗是伊丽莎白·戈德林女士写的。她因病而失明，她是一位诗人，而后也是一位艺术家和发明家。

SEEING MACHINE

ELIZABETH GOLDRING (POEM): Disappearance, Things are disappearing, Branches from trees, pieces of words, lines and faces.

JONATHAN MANN: The poem "Disappearance" was written by Elizabeth Goldring, a woman whose sight disappeared because of illness, a poet transformed into an artist and innovator.

ELIZABETH GOLDRING (MIT, ADVANCED VISUAL STUDIES CTR.): Ok, I see it, I see enough to invent with my left eye and that is very important. It's part of what I consider to be the beauty of the seeing machine is that you see enough to expand your visual imagination even if you're blind.

JONATHAN MANN: The seeing machine is Goldring's passion. Ever since doctors used a high tech device to examine her eyes they'd enabled her to see images. Goldring has been worked with student at the MIT and experts to develop a more affordable personal version. Her machine beams intense light to a tiny computer screen projecting images through a lens directly on the retina like a slide or movie screen so that even people with only a fraction of there vision left can see.

ELIZABETH GOLDRING: When I look in this machine I need to move my head around a bit to find the part of my retina that still works and the image is bright enough that it goes right to that part.

JONATHAN MANN: So what you're looking at now though is both a word and a representation of the word I take it.

ELIZABETH GOLDRING: Yes.

JONATHAN MANN: It isn't easy to read, so Goldring invented a new kind of script too.

ELIZABETH GOLDRING: With my visual language I've tried to augment the word graphically or through pictures so that the word BOOK becomes B, an image of a book, very simple image of a book and then K.

JONATHAN MANN: From the word FOLD that's literally folded to LOOK looking out, Goldring has lost count of all the words she's respelled in her new script. She can also play animation or video through the machine. Showing a patient how to navigate through an unfamiliar setting.

ELIZABETH GOLDRING: My idea is that one could sit and in the privacy of one's home and look at the place that one was going to travel to and go there then with much more self-confidence.

JONATHAN MANN: The world, of course, is made up of people as well as places. The seeing eye machine helps there too, enabling the user to see family or friends possibly for the first time.

ELIZABETH GOLDRING: It's amazing to be able to see a face, to have the experience the visual experience of seeing a face.

JONATHAN MANN: So after we talked we gave Elizabeth Goldring a chance to see me more clearly on the seeing machine.

ELIZABETH GOLDRING: I see your eyes very clearly. I didn't see your eyes at all during the interview really, it's so bright.

JONA

THAN MANN: Goldring is still a poet but ironically enough after she lost her vision she turned to visual art. These are reproductions of her own work hanging in a virtual museum. She calls her works retina prints because that's quite literally what they are, images of her own damaged retina super imposed on pictures of what she sees through it.

ELIZABETH GOLDRING: My retina prints are my image of what I'm seeing as I look through the seeing machine with my blind eye, they are a kind of blind sight.

JONATHAN MANN: The seeing machine hasn't yet been manufactured for wider use, when that happens Goldring says the visually impaired will not only get a chance to see, they will get a chance to create