【读新闻学英语】如何为半盲女儿做假眼？新西兰父亲打开了YouTube……
2017年2月24日 15:49Father teaches himself to make prosthetic eyes for his partially blind daughter to wear... after watching videos on YouTube 为了半盲的女儿，父亲在YouTube视频指导下做出了假眼
最终完成的假眼。图片来源：GoFundMe
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Father teaches himself to make prosthetic eyes for his partially blind daughter to wear... after watching videos on YouTube
为了半盲的女儿，父亲在YouTube视频指导下做出了假眼
Prosthetic：假体的；义肢的
Partially：部分地
Collins一家。图片来源：GoFundMe
Liberty, 3, was born with two rare eye conditions - microphthalmia and chorioretinal colobomas - which have left her completely blind in her right eye, and with an abnormally small eyeball.
3岁的Liberty天生患有小眼畸形和视网膜神经盘缺损，这让她的右眼几乎全盲，并且右眼眼球异常地小。
Microphthalmia：小眼畸形
Chorioretinal：脉络膜视网膜的
Coloboma：视神经盘缺损
Abnormally：异常地
天生半盲的Liberty。图片来源：GoFundMe
After she became distressed during visits to New Zealand specialists, her father Dwayne Collins turned to YouTube to learn how to make eye conformer shells, which sit over her eye to give the illusion it is full sized.
在新西兰看专科医生对Liberty来说很困扰，她的父亲Dwayne Collins开始向YouTube视频学习如何制作眼球构象壳，能遮住她不正常的眼球，造成眼球正常的假象。
Distressed：困恼的；痛苦的
Specialist：专科医生
Conformer：构象异构体
Shell：壳
Illusion：假象；错觉
Liberty和弟弟。图片来源：GoFundMe
"It took me about three months of practice and lots of failures before I had an eye I was happy to have her wear," Collins explained on a GoFundMe page.
Collins在GoFundMe页面上解释说：“我花了三个月，无数次试验无数次失败，终于做出了一个能让她佩戴的假眼。”
制作假眼是一个复杂的过程。图片来源：GoFundMe
"I remember finishing it and thinking 'this one's gonna be alright'," he said. "I ended up having a bit of a cry to myself and went and tried it on. It was pretty awesome."
“我记得做完的那一刻，我心想‘这个好像还可以’，”他说。“最后我独自哭了一会，然后试了一下。它挺不错的。”
end up doing：终止做某事，结束做某事
Collins, who currently owns a maintenance and design company, now believes creating these eyes is his calling, and is raising funds to become a trained specialist.
拥有一家维修设计公司的Collins，相信制作假眼是自己的使命，正在筹集资金，想成为一个受过训练的专家。
Maintenance：维护；维持；保养；保持
Calling：职业；使命感；责任感
佩戴了假眼的Liberty。图片来源：GoFundMe
Collins says the training would make him one of only four people in Australia and New Zealand with his level of qualification, and he says he is excited to be able to help others.
Collins说，这些训练会让他成为澳大利亚和新西兰地区仅有的四名有资质的专家之一，他很开心能帮助别人。
Qualification：任职资格；资质认证
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来源 - 新西兰先驱报中文网
