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“I’ve taught many blind people to use a chain saw,” he told me, noting that many activities that we assume require vision really don’t. For example, I knew a blind professor at Cornell University who continued to build exquisite wooden canoes for decades after losing his sight. A blind man who lived in my neighborhood volunteered at a hospital, playing piano to entertain patients.

A screen-reading computer program called Jaws enables Mr. Riccobono to “read” what’s on the screen, type and send email using synthesized speech. With the KNFB Reader app on his smartphone, three clicks on the home button turns it into a reading machine that takes pictures of text — a menu, label, whatever — and reads it out to you, he said.

词汇学习：

Professor pro前 fess-说 or在前面说的人叫老师，教授。拓展confess 在很多人面前说，叫坦白

Exquisite a精致的，优美的 qusi-词根：要求 从严苛的要求里，选出来(ex)的，就是精致的