读者文摘:关于雷暴雨你不知道的13件事(2)

6 Rubber tires are not what protect you from lightning when you're in your car.

6当你在车里的时候，橡胶轮胎并不能保护你免受闪电电击。

You're protected because when lightning hits a car, it travels around the outside of the metal structure to get to the ground.

毫发未伤是因为当闪电击中汽车时，电它会绕着金属结构的外部移动到地面。

Just be careful not to touch any metal areas on the interior.

小心，不要在车内碰到任何金属区。

7 By one measure, Tropical Storm Claudette was the wettest storm in U.S. history.

7据估，克劳德特热带风暴是美国史上最潮湿的风暴。

It dumped 43 inches of rain in 24 hours—the most rain ever recorded in one day—on Alvin, Texas, in July 1979.

1979年7月，德克萨斯州的阿尔文，24小时内降雨量达43英寸，这是记录以来一天降雨量最多的一次。

8 You can be struck by lightning even when it's not raining.

8即使不下雨，你也可能被闪电击中。

About 10 percent of lightning strikes take place when there's no precipitation.

大约10%的雷击发生在没有降水的时候。

9 In the 1980s, NASA flew one airplane through 1,496 thunderstorms.

9 20世纪80年代，美国宇航局驾驶一架飞机穿越了1496场雷暴。

It was struck by lightning more than 700 times.

被闪电击中700多次。

This was part of an effort to improve lightningprotection standards in aviation, and it worked.

此次行动旨在提高航空防雷标准，起作用了。

Today, a commercial airplane will be hit by lightning about once a year on average, typically with no ill effects.

如今，商用飞机平均每年会被雷击一次，通常情况下不会给飞机造成任何不良影响。

It has been decades since a U.S. airliner¹ has crashed as a result of a lightning strike.

一架美国客机因雷击而坠毁已过去几十年。

10Every day, twice a day, weather trackers simultaneously² launch giant balloons from almost 900locations worldwide

10气象追踪器每天同时从全球近900个地点发射巨型气球，每天发射两次，

(including 92 released by the National Weather Service in the United States and its territories).

（包括美国及其属地的美国国家气象局公布的92个地点）。

The balloons measure aboveground weather data such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed,

气球测量地面上的天气数据，如温度、湿度和风速，

and they provide vital information that meteorologists use to make forecasts and predict storms.

提供重要信息供气象学家预测风暴。

1 airliner   

n.客机，班机

参考例句：

• The pilot landed the airliner safely.驾驶员使客机安全着陆。
• The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.旅客们被引导走过跑道去上飞机。

2 simultaneously   

adv.同时发生地，同时进行地

参考例句：

• The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
• The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。