1. America even has too much garbage dump capacity, thanks to the fact that we have been building large regional dumps to replace older, smaller local dumps. 美国的垃圾倾卸能力非常强,因为美国人一直在修建大型区域性垃圾场,以取代陈旧的小型地方性垃圾场。
2. "We had to start building some place," says a spokesman for one of the companies, "and that was in areas where there are customers we believe will buy the service. This is a business." 其中一家公司的发言人说:"我们总要先从某些地区开始,而(那)就应该是我们认为会有顾客购买这些服务的地区。做生意就是这样。"
3. Advocates for the poor want the companies building the data highway to devote a portion of their profits to insuring universal access. 维护穷人权益的人士希望这些正在建设数据高速公路的公司能够将其利润的一部分用于此项技术的普及。
4. Although the 18-year-old sisters had requested rooms in different dorms, the housing office placed them on the eighth floor of the same building, across the hall from each other. 虽然这对18岁的姐妹曾要求住在不同的宿舍楼,但宿管处还是把她们安排在同一栋楼的第8层,中间只隔着一条过道。
5. A single gene will code for only one of the many molecules and cell proteins that are the building blocks of the brain. 一个基因仅仅为构成大脑的众多分子和细胞蛋白中的一个指定遗传密码。
6. Smoking is prohibited in the office building. 办公楼内禁止抽烟。
7. Some children are coming out of the building. 一些孩子正从楼里出来。
8. Stalin proposed that Roosevelt move into a separate building in the heavily guarded Soviet Compound, where the meetings could be held in safety. 斯大林建议罗斯福住到戒备森严的苏联大使馆内的一栋楼内,在那里能够很安全地召开会议。
9. Soil from new building projects in the city has been trucked by lorries into these areas. 来自城里新建住宅工地的泥土被卡车运到了这些地方。
10. Since then, every society has had to figure out what to do with its waste — something that is usually unhealthy, smelly, and ugly — throwing garbage in the streets, piling it up just outside of town, building it into structures or simply setting it o 此后,每个社会都要想办法解决垃圾问题——处理那些通常是有害的、难闻的、难看的东西——要么把垃圾扔到街上,要么堆在城外,要么掺在建筑结构里,要么干脆付之一炬。