1. Experimental data seem to indicate that the amount of radon (Rn) in the water under the surface of the Earth waxes before an earthquake. 实验数据似乎表明,地震前地下水中氡的含量会增高。
2. Everyone should agree on a meeting point outside of the area — perhaps in a town several miles away. 大家应该商定一个地震区外的会合点——可能是在几英里外的某个市镇。
3. Employers and landlords often buy this information from companies that are in the business of creating data profiles. 雇主、房东们常向开发数据档案的公司购买这类信息。
4. But as the paper moved from side to side under the pen point, its movement would be recorded in ink upon its surface. 由于纸在笔下来回运动,纸的表面就会用墨水记录下地板运动的情况。
5. But can the colossal cities of the future really function without overloading all their services to the point of collapse and destroying the environment through pollution of air and water? 但未来的巨城真的能够正常活动,而不会使城市的一切公共设施因超负荷而崩溃、不会由于空气和水的污染而使环境受到破坏吗?
6. C.You decide to present your point of view; you explain your reasoning seriously to your friend. c.你决心要表明你的观点;你认真向朋友解释你的理由。
7. But while the Internet primarily moves words, the information superhighway will soon make routine the electronic transmission of data in other formats, such as audio files and images. 但是,互联网主要是传送文字,而信息高速公路不久将使其他形式的电子数据传送(如声音资料和图像的传送)成为常规。
8. They set to work accumulating a huge mass of data. 他们开始累积大量的资料。
9. This point has been made clear in the foregoing chapter. 这一点在前面那一章中已讲清楚了。
10. This latter point was of great importance. 后面这点极为重要。