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六级阅读难点关键句20句
1. Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half.
系安全带可以挽救生命;它可以将你的死亡或重伤几率降低一半以上。
2. But it will be the driver’s responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind.
但驾驶员有责任确保14岁以下的儿童不坐在前排,除非他们系了某种安全带。
3. However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you are reversing your vehicle; or you are making a local delivery or collection using a special vehicle; or if you have a valid medical certificate which excuses you from wearing it.
但是,如果您要倒车,或者您使用特殊车辆在当地送货或取车,或者您有有效的医疗证明,可以不戴安全带。
4. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so, and you may be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing it.
记住,你可能会因为不穿而被带上法庭,如果你不能向法庭证明你已经被免除了穿它的责任,你可能会被罚款。
5. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could he slowed down.
松泽太久教授想知道为什么日本北部健康的农民在相对较低的年龄就失去了思考和推理的能力,以及他如何减缓衰老的进程。
6. With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.
在东京国立大学的一个同事团队中,他开始测量1000名不同年龄、不同职业的人的脑容量。
7. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect (智能) and emotion, and determine the human character.
计算机技术使研究人员能够精确测量大脑前部和侧面的体积,这些体积与智力和情感有关,并确定人类的性格。
8. Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.
在一些30多岁的受试者中观察到细胞死亡时前部和侧面的收缩,但在一些60岁和70岁的人中仍不明显。
9. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.
研究结果显示,总的来说,乡下人的大脑收缩比城里人的要快。
10. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.
然而,在办公室做日常工作的白领和农场工人、公共汽车司机和店员一样,大脑也会萎缩。
11. We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you.
我们知道你们对你们大学里教的那种学问有很高的评价,我们年轻人在你们这儿的生活费用对你们来说将是非常昂贵的。
12. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours.
但是你必须知道,不同的国家看待事物的方式是不同的,因此,如果我们对这种教育的看法与你的不一样,你就不会被冒犯。
13. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know , and make men of them.
然而,尽管我们拒绝接受你的好意,我们也同样感激你的好意;而且,为了表示我们的感激之情,如果Virginia的绅士们愿意送我们一打他们的儿子,我们将照顾他们的教育,用我们所知道的一切教给他们,并把他们培养成人。
14. In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the earth’s postwar era, there was quite a wide-spread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day.
在现在看来像是计算机史上的史前时代,即地球的战后时代,人们广泛担心有一天计算机会从人类手中接管世界。
15. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives. We are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem.
在不到四十年后的今天,计算机已经在减轻我们在商业和个人生活中越来越多的日常任务。我们面临着一个不太引人注目但也不太可预见的问题。
16. Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong.
显然,如果你必须检查所有的答案,投资一台
电脑是没有意义的,但是人们也应该依靠自己的内部电脑,当他们感觉出了问题时检查一下电脑。
17. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.
当然,牛顿在他的著作中考虑到了它的一些理论方面,但他不愿意出海继续他的工作。
18. For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it , let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface.
对大多数人来说,海洋是遥远的,除了早期的洲际旅行者或其他靠海洋谋生的人外,几乎没有理由问很多关于海洋的问题,更不用说问海底有什么。
19. The first time that the question “ What is at the bottom of the oceans?” had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.
第 一次问“海底是什么?“必须回答的任何商业后果是,当铺设一条从欧洲到美洲的电报电缆的提议。
20. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths, a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.
在早期的尝试中,电缆失败了,当它被取出修理时,发现上面覆盖着活的植物,这一事实违背了当代科学的观点,即海洋深处没有生命。
重点词汇
seat belt安全带
serious injury严重的损伤;重伤
make sure that一定要;设法保证;查明;核实;弄清
in the front在前边
do not have to甭
medical certificate健康证明书;诊断书;医疗证
have been来过