So, if you look at any engineering system, the performance of that engineering system is a function of its design and its construction.

如果你们观察过工程系统，工程系统的性能就是,它的设计和构造的功能。

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So this is another kind of engineering, an engineering not to look more closely at how humans work but an engineering to improve their function when it's failing.

这便是另一种工程技术,它并不研究人体运作原理,而是强化某部位的功能,如果这个部位失效了的话

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This is one aspect of Biomedical Engineering, developing tools that allow you to understand how human's function and what's wrong when they have disease and so some of the things we've talked about have that category.

这是生物医学工程研究的一个方向,即设计那些能够让人们了解,人体的运转方式的工具,以及能够诊断疾病的工具,我们刚才讲过的一些东西就属于这类

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