CRI听力:Real-time Air Quality Data in Beijing

短语讲解：

1. The center's staff will post air-quality data 24 hours a day on its official website, www.bjmemc.com.cn, based on results from 27 monitoring stations in the city.

base on使建立在…基础上,立足
例句：Action should be based on solid facts.
行动应有确凿的事实为依据。

2. Instead of only the daily air quality averages, the new measurements are more informative

instead of (用…)代替…, (是…)而不是…, (用…)而不用…
例句：We went to the Biology class instead of attending the English lesson.
我们去上生物课而不去上英语课。

3. The municipal government plans to release monitoring data using the PM2.5 gauge for the first time on January 23, before the Spring Festival.

for the first time第一次
例句：They tasted defeat for the first time.
他们第一次体验到失败的滋味。

4. PM2.5 is considered more hazardous to people's health as the smaller particles penetrate deeper into the lungs.

penetrate into进入
例句：They penetrated into territory where no man had ever gone before.
他们已进入先前没人去过的地区。

5. But previously, only data relating to denser PM10 was published.

relate to涉及, 关系到…
例句：He showed me all the correspondence relating to the matter.
他把与这件事有关的全部信件都给我看了。

6. In 2006, the environmental monitoring center started taking PM2.5 measurements for use by scientists, and set up substations for PM2.5 monitoring after the 2008 Olympic Games.

set up建立，建造, 创立, 竖立
例句：Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.
很多外国公司已在这里开办工厂。

7. Due to a lack of equipment, only six substations in Beijing are able to monitor PM2.5 at present.

due to由于，因为
例句：Her absence is due to illness.
她因病缺席。

8. The rapid growth of China's economy has resulted in more air pollution, but the current air-quality rating standard, which has not changed in over 10 years, has not progressed along with the economy.

result in导致,结果是
例句：The flood resulted in a considerable reduction in production.
这次水灾造成相当大的减产。

9. This plan is scheduled to be fully implemented nationwide by 2016, with pilot projects being conducted in certain regions ahead of the national deadline.

be scheduled to安排,预定
例句：The delegation is scheduled to arrive tomorrow.
代表团定于明日到达。
ahead of在…之前
例句：She left one day ahead of him.
她是在他离开的前一天离开的。