1. By installing optical fiber, digital switches, and the latest wireless transmission systems, a parade of urban centers and industrial zones from Beijing to Budapest are stepping directly into the Information Age.
    由于安装了光纤电缆、数字转换器和最新的无线传输系统，从北京到布达佩斯的一系列城区和工业区正在直接跨入信息时代。

2. The myth has it that Americans consume too much, since the creation of solid waste per person continues to climb.
    有种说法是，美国人消耗太多，因为他们的人均固体垃圾制造量在持续上升。

3. The population is 1.5 million, living in rural areas and a few urban centers.
    辖内的乡村和几个城区居住着150万人口。

4. However, there is an even more insidious kind of pollution that particularly affects urban areas and invades our daily lives, and that is noise.
    但是，还有一种更加隐蔽有害的污染，它专门影响城镇地区，侵袭我们的日常生活，那就是噪音。

5. All through the developing word the vanguard of the rural exodus has reached the urban fringes already.
    在整个发展中的世界里，退出农村而向城市科迁徙的先锋已经到达了城市的边缘。

6. A professor who studies early learning has attacked this myth, saying that when he looked into Gauss's childhood, he found that Gauss's mother had been teaching him numbers at the age of two.
    一位研究早期学习的教授驳斥了这一说法，称他研究了高斯的童年，发现在他两岁时，母亲就教给他数字。

7. Myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena,
    但神话和事实至少在某一个舞台上共存，

8. Psychologists have been studying the changes people experience when they leave rural areas and move into urban environments.
    心理学家一直在研究人们在离开乡村搬到城市环境后所经历的变化。

9. Myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena.
    但神话与现实至少在一个竞技场上.

10. Jordan has plans for an environmental university -- a huge urban park (5,000 acres ).
    乔丹计划建立一所环境大学- 一个巨大的都市花园（面积为5千英亩）。