"The brain-machine interface is a system that allows disabled people, people suffering from physical disabilities to communicate with external world and also to control devices."

VOA: special.2011.04.04

Here there's an expansion going on, so the system is doing work to the external world.

这里发生了膨胀,所以系统对外界做功，活塞被推出来。

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The child has no understanding in any real way of the external world.

儿童对于外部世界并没有什么真正的认识

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It's the pressure the external world is applying on this poor system here.

V是气体初态和,末态的体积之差。

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