大学英语自学教程 下册 un06

[11:15.58]人们都以为不可能可靠地预报地震.
[11:18.66]Scientists have only a partial understanding
[11:22.92]of the physical processes that cause earthquakes.
[11:25.10]科学家们只是对引起地震的物理过程有部分理解,
[11:27.28]Much more research has to be done.
[11:29.20]更多的研究要由人们去做,
[11:31.12]New and more up-to-date methods
[11:34.78]have to be found for collecting earthquake data and analyzing it.
[11:37.46]必须去发现新的和更多的现代化的方法去惧地震数据并加以分析.
[11:40.13]However,scientists have had some success in predicting earthquakes
[11:43.01]不过,科学家们在预测地震方面已取得了一些成功.
[11:45.88]Several small earthquakes were predicted in New York State,
[11:50.61]in the eastern part of the United States.
[11:52.54]美国东部纽约州几次小地震已被预报到.
[11:54.48]Chinese scientists predicted a major one in Halcheng in 1975,
[11:57.65]1975年中国预报了海城大地震,
[12:00.82]and Russian scientists predicted a major one in Garm in 1978.
[12:03.96]1978年俄国科学家预报了加尔姆大地震.
[12:07.09]While this is a small start,it is still a beginning.
[12:09.46]虽然这只是个小小的起步,但毕竟是一个开端.