How about mechanical work?

那机械功怎么样呢？

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The kind of work that you and I do in one day is so embarrassingly little in terms of mechanical work that you can completely neglect it.

你我一天所做的功，少得令人尴尬，就机械功来说，你可以完全忽略。

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By heat engine people mean an engine converting heat energy into mechanical work.

热机是指把热能转变为机械功的一种发动机。

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So the two points of interest of research are how does it work this conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy how are we able to bring back lost hair cells to cure deafness.

因此这项研究的两个关键点,一是机械能,是如何转化成电能的,我们能不能通过修复受损的毛细胞,来治疗耳聋。

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