来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：生物医学工程探索 第1集 第1集》

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  you've got to be able to make it in tremendously large quantities
  就必须能大量的生产该药物
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  and that's the work of biomedical engineers,
  这就是生物医学工程师研究的内容
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  making Penicillin in the kinds of quantities
  大规模生产青霉素
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  that you need so that a dose could be available for everyone in the world if they got infected,
  才能让世界上所有患传染病的人用上它
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  and to make it not just in abundance
  我们不仅仅要大量的生产
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  but make it cheaply enough that everyone could afford it.
  还要使它们很便宜 所有人都能买得起
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  So if you can make 100 tons of the drug
  虽然你能制造一百吨药
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  but it costs $100,000 a gram
  但每克药得十万美元
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  that might not be a useful drug
  这药就没什么用
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  because nobody could afford to use it.
  因为没人能用得起它
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  So it's the work of biomedical engineers, really,
  这就是生物医学工程师的工作
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  to take these innovations make them
  将药物这样的科研成果转化为产品