Loud sounds can damage these hair cells in a way that can cause temporary, even permanent hearing loss.

巨大的声音会损坏这些毛细胞，从而导致暂时性，甚至是永久性听力损失。

And louder sounds move the hair cells more, which generates bigger graded potentials, which in turn generate more frequent action potentials.

声音越大，毛细胞运动得越厉害，从而产生更大的分级电位，进而产生更频繁的动作电位。

With modern electron microscopy, we can see much better the nature of the special feature that gives the hair cell its name.

有了现代的电子显微镜，我们能更清楚地看见让毛细胞得名的这个特征的细节。

The idea of the implant is to replace the hair cells that have died.

植入物的目的是替换已经死亡的毛细胞。

In other words, if we're pumping an anti-sound wave to create silence, are our brains interpreting it as silence while our ear hair cells are still getting wrecked in a quiet tornado?

换句话说，如果我们在产生反声音波以创造安静，我们的大脑是否将其解释为安静的声音，而我们的耳毛细胞仍然在静音的龙卷风中被破坏？

While the ear's upper limits vary from person to person, close range exposure to sound exceeding 120 decibels can instantly bend or blow out hair cells, resulting in permanent hearing damage.

虽然耳朵的上限因人而异，但近距离接触超过 120 分贝的声音会立即弯曲或炸毁毛细胞， 从而导致永久性听力损伤。