| 31. | In 1953, a former electronics engineer in his fifties, Christopher Cockerell, who had turned to boat-building on the Norfolk Broads, suggested an idea on which he had been working for many years to the British Government and industrial circles. |
| 1953年，有一位50多岁名叫克里斯托弗.科克雷的原电子工程师，改行在诺福克郡的湖泊地区从事造船业，他向英国政府和工业界提出了他研究多年的一项计划。
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| 32. | The Moon is likely to become the industrial hub of the Solar System, supplying the rocket fuels fro its ships, easily obtainable from the lunar rocks in the from of liquid oxygen. |
| 月球很可能成为太阳系的工业中心。从月球上的岩石中很容易提炼出液态氧，作为航天飞船的燃料。
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| 33. | Contamination of water supplies is usually due to poor sanitation close to water sources, sewage disposal into the sources themselves, leakage of sewage into distribution systems or contamination with industrial or farm waste. |
| 水源的污染通常是由于接近水源的地方卫条件太差而造成的：污水排入水源，污水渗入给水系统或工农业污水造成污染。
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| 34. | Average inflation in the big seven industrial economies fell to a mere 3% last year, close to its lowest level in 30 years, before rising slightly to 5% this July. |
| 七大工业国家的通货膨胀率去年下降到了3%，接近30年来最低水平，今年7月才小幅上涨到5%，比许多国家70年代和80年代两位数低了很多。
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| 35. | The 'true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrllch of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth. |
| 环境研究的先驱、斯坦福大学的保罗?厄尔里西认为，科学真正的敌人 是那些对支持全球变暖、臭氧层损耗以及工业发展的其他后果的证据提 出置疑的人。
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| 36. | Scientific discoveries are often applied to industrial production methods. |
| 科学发现常常被应用到工业生产中.
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| 37. | What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution. |
| 所需要的就是一场新工业革命。
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| 38. | The acceleration in the decline of our industrial base is the fault of government cuts. |
| 政府的紧缩措施加速了我们工业基地的衰退。
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| 39. | This nation is now enjoying great commercial and industrial activity. |
| 现在这个国家在工商业上有很大的活力。
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| 40. | Wages for industrial workers have increased by an average of 7.5%. |
| 产业工人的工资平均增加了7.5%。
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