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课题蒙肯纸职称英语卫生C新思维简明英汉词典第5版

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第四十三篇CanBuildingsBeDesignedtoResistTerroristAttack

IntheaftermathoftheterroristattackontheWorldTradeCenter,structuralengineersaretryinghardtosolveaquestionthatamonthagowouldhavebeencompletelyunthinkable:

Canbuildingbedesignedtowithstandcatastrophicblastsinflictedbyterrorists?

Tendaysaftertheterroristattacksonthetwintowers,structuralengineersfromtheUniversityatBuffaloandtheMultidisciplinaryCenterforEarthquakeEngineeringResearch（MCEER）headquarteredatUBtraveledtogroundzer02aspartofaprojectfundedbytheNationalScienceFoundation.VisitingthesiteaspartofanMCEERreconnaissancevisit,theyspenttwodaysbeginningthetaskofformulatingideasabouthowtodesignsuchstructuresandsearchingforcluesonhowtodosoinbuildingstatweredamaged,butstillarestanding3.

"OurobjectiveinvisitinggroundzerowastogoandlookatthebuildingssurroundingtheWorldTradeCenter,thosebuildingsthatarestillstanding,butthatsustaineddamage4,"saidM.

Bruneau,Ph.D."Ourimmediatehopeisthatwecandevelopabetterunderstandingastowhythosebuildingsremainstanding,whileourlong-termgoalistoseewhetherearthquakeengineeringtechnologiescanbemarriedtoexistingtechnologiestoachieveenhancedperformanceofbuildings6intheeventofterroristattacks."headded.

PhotographstakenbytheinvestigatorsdemonstrateinstartlingdetailthemonumentaldamageinflictedontheWorldTradeCentertowersandbuildingsinthevicinity.Onebuildingablockawayfromthetowersremainsstanding,butwasbadlydamaged."Thisbuildingismanymetersaway.fromtheWorldTradeCenterandyetweseeacolumntherethatusedtobepartofthatbuilding",explainedA.Whittaker,Ph.D."Thecolumnbecameamissilethatshotacrosstheroad,throughthewindowandthroughthefloor."Thevisittotheareaalsorevealedsomesurprises,accordingtotheengineers.Forexample,thefloorframing8systemsinoneoftheadjacentbuildingswasquiterugged,allowingfloorsthatwerepiercedbytonsoffallingdebristoremainintact9."Highlyredundantductileframingsystemsmayprovideasimple,butrobuststrategyforblastresistance."headded.Otherstrategiesmayincludeprovidingalternatepathsforgravityloadsintheevent.thataload-bearingcolumnfails."Wealsoneedabetterunderstandingofthemechanismofcollapse",saidA.Whittaker."Weneedtofindoutwhatcausesabuildingtocollapseandhowyoucanpredictit."A.Reinhom,Ph.D.notedthat"earthquakeshakinghasledtothecollapseofmanybuildingsinthepast.Itinducesdynamicresponseandextremelyhighstressesanddeformationsinstructuralcomponents.Solutionsdevelopedforearthquake-resistantdesignmaybedirectlyapplicabletoblastengineeringandterrorist-resistantdesign.PartofourmissionnowatUBistotransferthesesolutionsandtodevelopnewoneswherenoneexistatpresent."

词汇：

aftermath['ɑ:

ftəmæθ]后果，结果withstand[wɪð'stænd]经受住

inflict[ɪn'flɪkt]使遭受，施加reconnaissance[rɪˈkɒnɪsns]勘察；侦察

inthevicinity附近debris[ˈdeɪbri:

]碎片

intact[ɪn'tækt]未受损伤的，完整无缺的

ductile[ˈdʌktaɪl]可伸展的，易变形的

注释：

1．intheaftermathof…：

在……（灾难性的事件发生）后的一段时间内。

例如：

intheaftermathoftheSecondWorldWar:

第二次世界大战结束后的时期

2．groundzero:

世界贸易中心（双子塔）被毁现场

3．buildingsthatweredamaged，butstillarestanding:

那些已损坏但未倒塌的建筑

4．butthatsustaineddamage:

但遭到了损坏。

sustain：

蒙受，遭受（伤害或损失）。

5．whetherearthquakeengineeringtechnologiescanbemarriedtoexistingtechnologies:

抗震技术能否与现有的建筑技术相结合。

bemarriedto:

与……相结合。

6．toachieveenhancedperformanceofbuildings:

以提高建筑的性能

7．instartlingdetail:

以令人吃惊的细节

8．thefloorframing:

楼板骨架

9．allowingfloorsthatwerepiercedbytonsoffallingdebristoremainintact:

那些被成吨的残片击穿的楼板得以完整无缺。

练习：

1.Thequestionraisedinthefirstparagraphisone____.

A）thatwasaskedbystructuralertgineersamonthago

B）thatistoodifficultforstructuralengineerstoanswerevennow

C）thatwasneverthoughtofbeforetheterroristattack

D）thatterroristsareeagertofindasolutionto

2.TheprojectfundedbytheNationalScienceFoundation____.

A）wasfirstproposedbysomeengineersatUB

B）tookabouttwodaystocomplete

C）wastoinvestigatethedamagecausedbytheterroristattack

D）wastofindoutwhysomebuildingscouldsurvivetheblasts

3.ThecolumnmentionedbyDr.Whittaker____.

A）waspartofthebuildingclosetotheWorldTradeCenter

B）waspartoftheWorldTradeCenter

C）wasshotthroughthewindowandtheflooroftheWorldTradeCenter

D）damagedmanybuildingsinthevicinityoftheWorldTradeCenter

4.Asurprisingdiscoverymadebytheinvestigatorsduringtheirvisittogroundzeroisthat______.

A）floorsintheadjacentbuildingsremainundamaged

B）somefloorframingsystemsdemonstr