Her father was a pump operator for the city water department.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

But one that I was very interested in was biology, and the reason was we did a lot of cool labs in high school, I loved doing the dissections -- it was very interesting to me to think about how different organs worked, how the heart could be a pump, how the lungs worked.

但当时我很喜欢生物学，因为我高中做了很多很酷的生物实验,我很喜欢解剖-,我觉得了解不同器官,怎么工作很有趣,像心脏怎么泵血。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

What if you could take just a pump that's capable of continuously administering insulin at various rates and connect it to a sensor that's able to continuously measure the sugar level in your blood?

如果我们安装一个泵,能够持续的动态控制胰岛素输出,并把这个泵连接到一个,持续监测体内血糖水平的变化的传感器上

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

For a small farmer, replacing a bucket with a pump can lead to cultivating a wider variety of crops and creating work for family and neighbors.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

So if you've got to pump that tire really a lot, then you're going to you're going to really feel a lot of heat there. The compression of the basically it's an adiabatic compression.

所以若果你给轮胎，打了很多的气，你会觉得你感觉,阀门那儿非常的烫，这种压缩,基本上是一个绝热的压缩。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

A simple water pump is helping to improve the lives of poor families in several Asian and African countries.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

A farmer in Zambia said he hoped to have enough money in three years to buy a diesel-powered pump.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The treadle pump is based on a design developed in the nineteen seventies by Norwegian engineer Gunnar Barnes.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

As a final step there are plans to pump in mud and cement from below through relief wells.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

How many hours a day the pump needs to be operated depends on the season and how much water is needed for crops.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Between thirty and thirty-five women used each system to pump water from the ground or a stream.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

The Henry Milker is a hand-operated vacuum pump.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

The simple mechanical pump draws water from a shallow well or nearby stream or river for use in irrigation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

And in sub-Saharan Africa, where only four percent of the land is irrigated, buying a small pump can make a big difference.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

"So KickStart went forward to design a range of agricultural technologies, the most significant of which has been the foot-powered treadle pump."

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

"The guitar,you know, pushes the whole thing. It's like a pulse,you know, they call it 'the pump'.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

Seventy-eight-year-old Richard Stowe has a mechanical pump inside his chest that keeps blood flowing throughout his body.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

But it found a significant increase in the risk of heart failure where the heart cannot pump enough blood to the organs or muscles.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

This water pump -- called the Super Money Maker -- is designed to make a big difference in the lives of rural Africans.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

As for cost,Dr.Miller says patients with a heart pump spend less time in a hospital and have lower hospital costs than patients with severe heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

BP says a more complete solution is needed. The next step is to try to pump mud and other materials to the sea floor and block the well.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

Stowe recalls how little he could do before getting a heart pump.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

But in a study involving the HeartMate II pump, survived that long.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

The computer program continuously takes in data from a glucose monitor inserted into a patient's vein and calculates the dose of artificial insulin that needs to be infused through an insulin pump.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The pump developed by researchers is a double pump - in addition to insulin, it automatically secretes glucagon, a hormone that taps glucose reserves in the liver, raising blood sugar levels when they get too low, a condition called hypoglycemia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15