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新的应用程序帮助确认改变的指纹

2012-01-28来源:VOA
短语讲解:
1. In 2009, a Chinese woman illegally entered Japan by altering her fingerprints in order to fool immigration officials.While it was Japan's first documented case of biometric fraud, disguising fingerprints to hide complicity in a crime, or to evade immigration restrictions, is on the rise worldwide.

in order to为了
例句:We started early in order to arrive before dark.
为了在天黑前到达,我们很早就动身了。
on the rise在上涨[增长]
例句:The prices are on the rise.
物价在上涨。

2. Biting the pads off fingertips or surgically replacing the fingerprints with toe prints might seem like drastic measures but Anil Jain, a biometrics expert and professor at Michigan State University, says these efforts at deception are becoming increasingly common.

replace with用…代替
例句:We've replaced the old machine with a computer.
我们用电脑取代了那台旧机器。

3. “People who go through this process, which can be both expensive and painful, would want to do this only for high-valued scenarios and not for cashing a check for $50," Jain says.

go through遭受, 经受, 经历
例句:When he was a child, he went through one hardship after another.
孩提时代, 他经历了一个又一个的艰难困苦。

4. Popular crime dramas lead many to believe it's easy to confirm a person's identity from a fingerprint.

lead to导致, 引起
例句:In given conditions, a bad thing can lead to good results.
在一定条件下, 一件坏事可以导致好的结果。

5. A number of factors make identification difficult: whether information has been entered into a specific database, if the specimen is smudged or a partial print, and if that print has been altered.

enter into包括
例句:Does that enter into the cost of the ticket?
票价中包括这项吗?

6. And, Jain says, it also takes the guesswork out of determining whether or not a print has been altered.

take out把…带出去
例句:Please take the children out, their noise is making my head ache.
请把孩子们领出去, 他们吵得我头痛。

7. Most accidents result in scars on only a few fingers.

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。

8. Meanwhile, Jain and his team are developing algorithms and software, which will one day be able to recover and rebuild fingerprints from altered samples.

recover from恢复, 痊愈
例句:Has he recovered from his illness?
他的病好了吗?