[00:00.02]Three university students in Santiago, Chile, have developed a plant-powered device to charge their mobile phones.#
智利圣地亚哥的三个大学生发明了能给手机充电的植物供能设备。#
[00:09.28]The three engineering students got the idea for the device while sitting in their school’s courtyard.#
这三个工程系学生是在学校操场上坐着的时候有的灵感。#
[00:16.70]Their invention is a small biological circuit they call E-Kaia.#
他们的发明是一个小的生物电路，取名叫E-Kaia。#
[00:22.43]It captures the energy which plants produce during photosynthesis, a process of converting sunlight into energy.#
当植物光合作用产能的时候，这个电路就会汲取能量。光合作用是把光能转化为植物自身的能量。#
[00:31.50]A plant uses only a small part of the energy produced by that process.#
植物本身只会利用光合过程中的一小部分能量。#
[00:37.77]The rest goes into the soil.#
其余的部分就进入了土壤。#
[00:40.16]E-Kaia collects that energy.#
E-Kaia就收集那一部分能量。#
[00:43.41]The device plugs into the ground and then into a mobile phone.#
这个设备先插入土壤中然后再插入手机里。#
[00:48.76]The E-Kaia solved two problems for the engineering students.#
E-Kaia为工程系学生解决了两个问题。#
[00:54.31]They needed an idea for a class project.#
他们的这个灵感用于课堂项目。#
[00:57.43]They also needed an outlet to plug in their phones.#
他们同时也需要有个地方插手机。#
[01:01.82]One of the student inventors, Camila Rupcich,#
发明者之一的Camila Rupcich说，#
[01:05.62]says the device changes the energy released from the plant into low-level power to charge phones.#
这个设备把植物释放的能量转换成较低的水平从而为手机充电。#
[01:13.83]The E-Kaia is able to fully recharge a mobile phone in less than two hours.#
E-Kaia能在两小时内把手机充满电。#
[01:20.92]Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.#
请根据你刚刚听到的新闻报道回答问题5至问题7。#
[01:26.30]Question 5 What did the three university students invent?#
问题5.三个大学生发明了什么？#
[01:44.27]Question 6 When did they get the idea for the invention?#
问题6.他们什么时候有的灵感？#
[02:03.72]Question 7 What does the speaker say about the invention?#
问题7.说话的人怎么评价这个发明？
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