太平洋海啸预警中心

短语讲解：

1. The Hawaii Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is responsible for issuing warnings to the state of Hawaii and American interests around the Pacific.

be responsible for对…负责
例句：She is responsible for sales promotion
她负责推销工作。

2. After the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center took on the role of monitoring the Indian Ocean as well, sharing this task with the Japanese Meteorological Agency.

take on承担
例句：He is always ready to take on heavy responsibilities.
他一向乐于挑重担。

3. Until then, there was no monitoring system in the Indian Ocean, and that contributed to the large number of casualties in the December 2004 tsunami.

contribute to促成
例句：Your suggestion has greatly contributed to the accomplishment of our work.
你的建议大大地促进了我们工作的完成。

4. Regardless of recent technological advances in monitoring water levels and waves, much of the activity the center records is based on historical data, at least as far as initial warnings are concerned.

regardless of不管，不顾
例句：Regardless of danger, he climbed the tower.
他不顾危险地爬上了高塔。
base on以……为基础
例句：This play is based on a true story.
这出戏以真事为基础。

5. If the present sequence (of earthquakes) is anything like what happened in the last century, we have about five or six years more to go before the earth goes back to sleep.

go back回转, 回顾, 追溯
例句：They went back to the scenes of their childhood.
他们回忆了童年的情景。

6. Fryer says disasters like that help with funding tsunami warning systems.

help with帮助(某人)做…
例句：She helped me with the translation.
她帮我翻译。

7. There are now 40 DART deep water gauges in oceans around the world compared to only six before the 2004 disaster.

compare to与…相比
例句：The writer was compared to Shakespeare.
把这个作家与莎士比亚进行了比较。

8. This is being achieved through new projection models that take into account the directionality of an earthquake occurring under the ocean and the effect it may have.

take into account考虑到;体谅
例句：They had to take the baby into account when they wanted to go out.
每当要外出时,他们总得考虑如何将婴孩安顿好。