2. Every apartment house has a water tank on its roof. 每栋公寓房子都有一个水塔。
3. Even if a piped water supply is safe at its source, it is not always safe by the time it reaches the tap. 即使管道供水系统在水源处安全的,等水到达龙头时就不一定总是安全的了。
4. Engineers build huge storm pipes or sewers (污水沟) to carry the storm water away, but these cause another problem. 工程师们就建造了巨大的雨水管道或下水道来把暴雨雨水排出去,但是这些设施会引起另一个问题。
5. Even so, one prominent magazine consistently refused to print "Joe" in my by-line, using my first initials, J.S., instead. 即使如此,一家著名杂志一直拒绝把"乔"作为我的文章的作者署名,而是用我名字的首字母 J.S. 来代替它。
6. 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。
7. Enclosed in this outfit, I waited in line for an hour with other adventurers, mostly office workers in their 20's. 我包裹在这一身装束里,与其他的历险者一起排了一小时队。他们大多是20多岁的办公室职员。
8. Boiling is always a good way of treating water. 烧开一直是水处理的一种好办法。
9. Beware of methylated alcohol, which is very poisonous, and should never be added to drinking water. 要提防甲基化酒精,那是剧毒的,永远不能掺入饮用水。
10. Before long, the noise dropped completely and the boat began to drift gently across the water. 没过多久,噪音便彻底消失,快艇开始在水面上慢悠悠地漂流。