SSS 2008-09-15
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(九)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
If you spent any time in your car this summer you probably sat in some traffic. Maybe you’re in a jam right now. If so, a study in an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters might help pass the time. According to scientists, building new roads won’t make traffic any lighter 1. It could even make things worse. What might help, though, is shutting a few streets down.
Imagine that there are two routes that take you to work: one a long wide freeway and the other a short, narrow bridge. In this example, everyone’s drive time would be minimized 2 if half the motorists took the bridge and the other half the highway. Of course nobody cares about minimizing 3 the collective commute 4. Every driver wants to get there first. So some of the highway drivers will switch to the bridge, thinking that’ll be quicker. When the bridge backs up, some will head for the highway. The upshot of all this back-and-forth is that everyone’s commute takes longer—in real life, up to 30 percent longer, the physicists 5 find. The solution, they say, is to close off a few carefully selected avenues to limit all that to-and-fro. With less choice, and less chaos 6, everyone moves faster. It sounds counterintuitive. But it could beep worth a try.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin .
- The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
- The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。
- Target deterioration can be minimized by providing adequate cooling. 提供适当的冷却，可以减小靶的损伤。
- Possible complications would be minimized. 可能发生的纠纷，将减至最低程度。
- It was a new production technique aimed at minimizing wastage. 这是一项旨在使损耗减至最低的新生产技术。
- The filters should be cemented together, thus minimizing the surface reflection losses. 为了尽量减少表面的反射损失，应该把这些滤色镜胶合在一起。
- I spend much less time on my commute to work now.我现在工作的往返时间要节省好多。
- Most office workers commute from the suburbs.很多公司的职员都是从郊外来上班的。
- For many particle physicists, however, it was a year of frustration. 对于许多粒子物理学家来说，这是受挫折的一年。 来自英汉非文学 - 科技
- Physicists seek rules or patterns to provide a framework. 物理学家寻求用法则或图式来构成一个框架。