造纸术英语

Listening 1
Modern paper-making began in China about 2000 years ago. This process produced paper from cloth, straw, wood or the bark of trees.
现代造纸术2000多年前的中国，这个过程通过布条、稻草、木头和树皮产生纸。

The raw materials are struck over and over until they become loose. Then they are mixed with water.
原始的材料经过反复地捶打，直到它们变得松散。

然后将它们与水混合。

After the water has been removed, the flat, thin, form remaining is permitted to dry. This becomes a sheet of paper.
水去除之后，就可以把又薄又平坦的剩余物拿去烘干，烘干之后就变成了一张张纸。

Everything is placed in a container, covered with water and brought to a boil.
所有的原材料都放入一个容器中，用水混合，然后放入沸腾炉中。

The paper is smoothed and pressed to remove trapped air. You can use a common electric iron used for pressing clothes.
纸被平滑和挤压以去除滞留的空气。

可以使用普通熨衣服的电熨斗完成。

Listening 2
Professor Cox says Japan has one of the best building code systems in the world.
Cox教授说日本拥有一套世界上最好的建筑规范系统。

The problem is this earthquake was just a mammoth earthquake, one of the, you know, top five earthquakes in recorded history.
问题是这次的地震仅仅是一个母地震，是在有记录历史的地震中强度在前五的一个地震。

Soil liquefaction is the process by which the strength or stiffness of soil is weakened by an event like the shaking of an earthquake.
土壤流体化是一个通过像地震震动一样的事件来弱化土壤强度的一个过程。

They use it to detail the building in terms of, is this going to be a steel structure? Is it going to be reinforced concrete?
他们用这样的信息从以下几个方面来详述这个建筑：这样像一个轮胎结构吗？是否会增强凝固性？
A lot of the work that we’ve been doing has been focusing on the rebuilding effort and how to especially make sure that the rebuilding of schools and hospitals, and kind of critical facilities that you would need to respond to an emergency-police and fire stations, government buildings-that those things get rebuilt appropriately.
我们已经做的大量的工作一直都是致力于重建工作，特别是如何保证学校、医院、类似于对紧急事件或者火灾的反应严格的设施和需要合适重建的政府设施的重建工作。