中科院英语期中考试翻译.doc

1.Most houses and commercial structures that were constructed after 1980, when Japan’s building code had its last major revision, are still standing. 日本最近一次对其建筑规范进行重大修订是在1980年，之后的大部分房屋和商业建筑至今仍完好无损。 Charles Scawthorn, vice president of EQE International, a San Francisco firm that specializes in quake-resistant engineering, says that ”This is the real heart of the seismic-hazard problem. ” 国际EQE的副总裁，San Francisco 公司的抗震工程师Charles Scawthorn说：“这（改进现在的建筑结构）就是地震危害的核心问题。” What he saw convinced him that relatively simple precaution could have prevented the most common form of damage: the roofs and upper stories of buildings crashing down onto lower floors. 看到的使他相信那些相对简单的预防措施应该能够防止最常见的毁害：房顶和上层倒塌在下面的地板上 In the traditional Japanese house, Scawthorn says, the first floor lacks interior walls that could help support the weight of the second floor, as they would for a Western home Scawthorn说，传统的日本房屋缺乏用于支撑第二层楼重量的内墙，而西方房屋的内墙则能支撑二层楼的重量。 2.Not since the first decades of the twentieth century have so many people entered the United Sates. 从20 世纪的开始10年，才开始有那么多的移民进入美国。 Opponents of English as an official language say that bilingual education is a more realistic, long-term solution for helping foreign-born Americans assimilate. 不赞成将英语作为官方语言的反对者说，双语教育对于帮助外籍美国人融入本土是一种更为现实长效的方案 Neither cancer nor heart disease, the two most common physical conditions that threaten life at this age level, are responsible for nearly as many deaths as the motor vehicle accident. 无论是癌症还是心脏病，即在这个年龄层中最常见的危及生命的两种身体状况，它们所导致的死亡都远不及机动车事故所造成的死亡人数 It may be important to add that the motor vehicle death rate begins to decline markedly after this peak between ages twenty to twenty-four. 也许值得补充的是，对于年龄在二十到二十四岁之间的人来说，因机动车而死亡的人数达到峰值，在这年龄段之后，这一死亡率便会急剧下降 Since only a few people are supposed to have this mathematical mind, part of what makes us so passive in the face of our difficulties in learning mathematics is that we suspect all the while we may not be one of “them” and we spend our time waiting to find out when our nonmath