Professor Hawkings condition has left him in a wheelchair for almost half a century and able to communicate only through a voice synthesizer operated by a muscle in his cheek. 霍金教授的身体状况使得他已经在轮椅上生活了近半个世纪的时间,而且只能通过由脸颊肌肉控制的声音合成器来同外界交流。
Hawkings popular 1988 book A Brief History of Time remained a best-seller for more than four years. 霍金1988年的著作《时间简史》在畅销书榜上停留了四年以上。
Hawkings said that usually when one chamber of Congress changes hands from one party to the other, the other chamber does also. 霍金斯说,一般来说,国会两院中一个党派占多数的话,另一个也会在同一党派控制之下。