Well let's take a step back for a minute; that's one way of looking at Biomedical Engineering, by looking at sort of the things that you know about that have been the result of the work of biomedical engineers and talk more generally.

好的,话说回来,了解生物医学工程的一种方法就是,通过看一些你们熟悉的东西,它们同时也是,生物医学工程的研究成果,并对它们做一般意义上的讲解

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The other thing about it is that you could make lots of things that are new but generally you think of engineers as making things that are not just new but they're useful, that they do something that needs to be done, and that they do something that improves life, the quality of life of people.

另一个区别是,科学家会做很多很多新鲜玩意儿,而一般来讲,工程师做的东西不只是新奇,它们还很有用,他们做那些需要做的东西,他们做的东西能够提高,人类的生活水平和生活质量

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