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The engineers used five thousand dollars from the Hoyt family to build a special computer.
工程师们用霍伊特家族的5000美元建造了一台特殊的计算机。
The computer let Rick write his thoughts.
电脑让里克写下了他的想法。
By moving his head, Rick could select letters on the computer.
通过移动他的头，里克可以在电脑上选择字母。
Rick’s family did not know what words he would first write.
里克的家人不知道他首先会写些什么。
They expected him to say “Hi Mom” or “Hello Dad.”
他们期待他会说“嗨，妈妈”或“你好，爸爸”。
But the first thing Rick wrote was “Go Bruins.”
但里克写的第一句话是“加油，棕熊队。”
The Bruins are a professional hockey team.
棕熊队是一支职业曲棍球队。
Rick enjoyed watching sports with his family.
里克喜欢和家人一起看体育比赛。
He had watched this team his whole life.
他一生都在关注这支球队。
His parents now knew Rick loved sports.
他的父母现在知道里克热爱体育运动。
Rick started school in 1975.
里克1975年开始上学。
Two years later, he told his father that he wanted to compete in a local race.
两年后，他告诉父亲，他想参加当地的一场比赛。
The race was to help a local young man who had suffered a bad accident.
这场比赛是为了帮助当地一名遭遇严重事故的年轻人。
The young man became paralyzed.
这位年轻人瘫痪了。
He could not move his body.
他的身体动不了了。
Rick’s father agreed to help Rick compete in the race.
里克的父亲同意帮助里克参加比赛。
Dick had not run in any races before, but he agreed to push Rick in his wheelchair.
迪克以前没有参加过任何比赛，但他同意用轮椅推着里克。
Dick and Rick competed in the eight kilometre race.
迪克和里克参加了八公里赛跑。
They did not do very well.
他们的成绩不是很好。
They finished second to last.
他们获得了倒数第二名。
But they still felt good about the race.
但他们对比赛的感觉仍然很好。
The night after the race, Rick told his family that he did not feel disabled when he and his father were racing.
比赛结束后的那个晚上，里克告诉他的家人，当他和他的父亲比赛时，他并没有感到自己是个残疾人。
Dick and Rick Hoyt continued to race.
迪克和里克·霍伊特继续参加比赛。
Many people were very surprised to see a disabled person in a race.
很多人在赛跑中看到残疾人都很惊讶。
Some people did not want to race with Dick and Rick.
有些人不想和迪克和里克比赛。
Dick says that many people were not educated about people with disabilities.
迪克说，许多人没有接受过关于残疾人的教育。
They did not know how to react to his son.
他们不知道如何回应他的儿子。
But over time, Dick says, people began to see that Rick was a person.
但随着时间的推移，迪克说，人们开始意识到里克是一个人。
Rick wrote about how people responded to him racing:
里克写道，人们对他比赛的反应如下：
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