年夜学英语阅读难点100句翻译之（一）
1. Wearing a seat belt saves lives； it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half.
2. But it will be the driver's responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind.
3. However， you do not have to wear a seat belt if you are reversing your vehicle； or you are IT a local delivery or collection using a special vehicle； or if you have a valid medical certificate which excuses you from wearing it.
4. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so， and you may be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing it.
5. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age， and how the process of ageing could he slowed down.
6. With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University， he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.
7. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain， which relate to intellect（智能） and emotion， and determine the human character.
8. Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in some subjects in their thirties， but it was still not evident in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.
9. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.
10. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are， however， as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker， bus driver and shop assistant.
11. We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges， and that the costs of living of our young men， while with you， would be very expensive to you.
12. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things， and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours.
13. We are， however， not the less obliged by your kind offer， though we refuse to accept it； and， to show our grateful sense of it， if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons， we will take care of their education， teach them in all we know， and make men of them.
14. In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history， the earth's postwar era， there was quite a wide-spread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day.
15. Already today， less than forty years later， as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives. We are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem.
16. Obviously， there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers， but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong.
17. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings， but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.
18. For most people the sea was remote， and with the exception of early intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea， there was little reason to ask many questions about it， let alone to ask what lay beneath the suITce.
19. The first time that the question“ What is at the bottom of the oceans？” had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.
20. At the early attempts， the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths， a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.
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第一部分（1-20句译文）
1、系好平安带可以挽救人命，它能将归天和轻伤的概率淘汰一半以上。
2、可是司机有责任确保14岁以下的孩子不要坐在前排，除非他们系好了平安带。
3、固然，倘使有以下情况你可以不系平安带：你在倒车时，大概你用一种特别交通工具举行外埠的货色保送、搜集时，大概你有合法的医学证明你不能系平安带时。
4、留意你如果不这么做（系平安带）的话，你有年夜概原告上法庭，并且你有年夜概被处以罚款除非你能证明你有不带平安带的来由。
5、Taiju Matsuzawa传授想找出为什么日本北部的康健农夷易近在相对年老的年龄就显得开始失落往思索与推理的本领的缘故原因以及如何本领延缓老化历程。
6、在东京国立年夜学的同事们的匡助下，他开始对一千来自不合职业的人群举行了年夜脑体积的测量。
7、计算机技能匡助钻研人员获得人脑前部和侧部的准确体积，这是与人的智能和表情有关的部分，并且也决议人的性情特点。
8、有的人（年夜脑）前部和侧部的缩短——跟着细胞的灭亡——在三十多岁时就能被考察到了，可是也有些人直到六七岁仍然不清楚。
9、钻研功效表明在乡村的人年夜脑缩短根基上比都会里的人要早。
10、在政府部分从事简朴频频义务的白领也像农场工人、大众汽车司机和市肆人员一样年夜脑细胞随便缩短。
11、我们晓得你们很垂青你们在年夜学外面教诲的学习体例，并且我们的年白叟与你们糊口的破费即便关于你们来说也不廉价。
12、可是你们也要年夜白不合的夷易近族对待事物有不合的体例，所以如果恰恰我们的不雅观点与你们的不一样的话，你们也不该觉的被干犯了。
13、固然，关于你们的美意我们没有IT迫的感受，虽然我们拒尽接受。并且，为了默示我们的感谢感动，如果维吉利亚洲的名流们宁愿答应派来一些他们的后辈的话，我们会尽全力教诲他们，并把他们培养成为真正的男子。
14、在这个像是计算机史前期间的期间，地球的战前期间，人们遍及担心有一天计算机遇替代人类控制世界。
15、本日大概不到五十年后，计算机将越来越多的减轻人们的义务事件和日常琐事。我们也将面临一个没有什么戏剧性和更不可预测的题目。
16、显然，如果你不得不查抄计算机供给的全部谜底的话，对它投资就没有任何意义了。可是当人们觉的计算机确实出了一些题目的时候，应该靠自己内部的“计算机”来查抄机器。
17、固然牛顿在他的作品中写到了一些理想方面的东西，但他不愿举行更加深入的钻研。
18、除了一些洲际旅游者和以年夜海为生的人，关于年夜年夜都人来说，年夜海是远远的，没有什么需要提出太多题目，更别说思索年夜海海底的东西了。
19、当展设一条从欧洲到美洲的海底电报光缆的时候，出于商业念头，人们第一次不得不回答这个题目“海底是什么东西”。
20、在早期的尝试中，光缆展设失落败，不得不掏出来维修。这时人们发明下面笼盖有生物，这民主了那时迷信界以为深海没有生命的理想。
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