1. Edwin Land, one of America's most productive inventors, claimed the idea leading to his invention of the Polaroid camera came from his three-year-old daughter.
    美国最具创造力的发明家之一埃德温·兰德说，使他产生发明宝丽来相机这一想法的是他三岁的女儿。

2. We gave him fluids for the first two weeks and then fed him through a tube which passed through his nose into his stomach.
    头两个礼拜我们给他输液，后来又通过一根导管将食物从他的鼻子输送到他的胃里。

3. The camera was tipped.
    照相机倾斜。

4. The focus on my camera isn´t working properly.
    我的照相机上的调焦装置有毛病.

5. The camera is photographic.
    照相机是用于摄影的.

6. They used to suffer for about 37 hours after surgery on average with a plastic tube as thick as a thumb running through their mouth or nose and down 11 inches of their throat.
    过去，手术后病人平均要疼大约37个小时，一根拇指粗细的塑料导管经口腔或鼻腔插入喉咙，深至11英寸。

7. The tube assists breathing, but patients say it feels like a fire running through their throat and hurts more than having their chest cut open.
    导管帮助病人呼吸，但病人说感觉它就像一把火烧过喉咙，比开胸还难受。

8. Two years ago, a 15-member team at the 115-year-old teaching hospital, under pressure to cut costs from a health maintenance organization (HMO), was given permission by the hospital's top manager to find a way to get the tube removed sooner.
    两年前，出于一家保健组织（HMO）要求减少成本的压力，这家有115年历史的教学医院组建了一支15人小组，他们得到医院总经理的许可来研制一种方法，以便尽早去掉导管。

9. They discovered some hospitals were removing the tube much faster.
    他们发现，有些医院导管去除得很早。

10. They suffered no additional pain, awoke more aware, and the tube was removed quickly — sometimes six hours after surgery.
    他们没有额外的痛苦，醒时更为清醒，而导管也去除得快——有时术后6小时就拿走了。