(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
11 Lightning can strike the same place twice—and it often does, especially objects that are tall, pointy, and isolated.
11闪电可以两次击中同一个地方，而且经常如此，特别是那些孤立的高尖物体。
The Empire State Building, for example, is hit almost 100 times a year, according to the CDC.
例如，据美国疾病控制与预防中心的数据，帝国大厦每年受到近100次袭击。
12 Covering your windows with tape will not protect them from wind or flying objects.
12用胶带盖住窗户并不能保护窗户不受风和飞行物体的破坏。
Experts promoted this idea long ago, before they realized that taping does nothing to strengthen windows and may even increase the potential for harm.
很久以前专家们就提出了这个想法，当时他们还没有意识到胶带对加固窗户非但没有任何作用，反而会增加潜在危害。
(Picture giant taped-together shards of glass flying at you.)
（想象一下巨大的玻璃碎片朝你飞来。）
Covering your windows with storm shutters or plywood is the only way to prevent them from breaking.
用百叶窗或胶合板盖住是防止窗户破裂的唯一方法。
13 And nothing is going to save you if you get caught in the hailstorm from you-knowwhere.
13如果你遇上了冰雹，什么也救不了你。
Ice particles form when water droplets reach cold temperatures in a thunderstorm,
雷雨天气，水滴遇冷形成冰颗粒，
but they achieve a measurable size only when a storm's updraft is strong enough to hold the ice aloft as more water droplets freeze onto the initial crystal.
更多水滴冻结为小水晶，但当风暴的上升气流强大到足以支撑冰层时，这些小水晶才能达到可测量的大小
The largest hailstone ever recorded in the United States was found in July 2010 in Vivian, South Dakota.
2010年7月，美国南达科塔维维安发现了有史以来最大的冰雹。
It was almost 19 inches around and weighed almost two pounds. Ouch.
约19英寸长，2磅重。
重点讲解
1.Empire State Building 帝国大厦
View from Empire State Building to Chrysler Building and Queensboro Bridge.
从帝国大厦向克莱斯勒大厦与皇后大桥眺望。
2.measurable 可测量的；重要的；重大的
Spatial ability is located in both brain hemi spheres for women but does not have a specific measurable location as it does in males.
空间能力位于女性的左右两个半脑，但是并不像在男性大脑中一样有一个特定的可测量的位置。
3.thunderstorm 雷暴；雷暴雨；大雷雨
The Fermi Space Telescope is so sensitive to these gamma ray bursts that it doesn't even need to be positioned right over a thunderstorm to detect the TGFs.
费米太空望远镜对这些伽马射线脉冲很灵敏，以至于它甚至不需要调整位置对准雷暴的正上方，就能来探测TGF信号。
4.prevent from 阻止，制止；妨碍
To prevent and investigate illegal activities; to attack and take precautions against terrorism; to maintain the public order and prevent from activities against public order.
预防、制止和侦查违法犯罪活动；防范、打击恐怖活动；维护社会治安秩序，制止危害社会治安秩序的行为；
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