慢速英语:Designing a Quake-Resistant Building Starts at the Soil

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assistant professor 助理教授
例句：She is an assistant professor of Peking University.
她是北京大学的一个助教。

2. One thing I think a lot of people don't understand is that building codes are meant to prevent loss of life in earthquakes, that doesn’t mean that the buildings won't -- or bridges for that matter, or anything -- won't sustain significant damage.

for that matter其实（用以指出所说的两件事中，后说的与先说的性质一样）
例句：Don't talk like that to your mother, or to anyone else for that matter.
不要跟你母亲那样说话, 其实跟谁也不要那样。

3. Those two earthquakes really opened up a lot of new research on something called soil liquefaction, in particular.

in particular 尤其，特别
例句：Among all the merchandise, I was interested in the cotton piece in particular.
在所有商品中, 我对棉布特别感兴趣。

4. Then the structural engineers take that information and they use it to detail the building in terms of, is this going to be a steel structure?

in terms of就...而论;在...方面
例句：In terms of money, he's quite rich, but not in terms of happiness.
就钱来说他很富有,但就幸福来说就不然了。

5. A lot of the work that we’ve been doing has been focusing on the rebuilding effort and how to especially make sure that the rebuilding of schools and hospitals, and kind of critical facilities that you would need to respond to an emergency -- police and fire stations, government buildings -- that those things get rebuilt appropriately.

focus on 集中于…
例句：Schools focus on scholastic and professional skills, but not on financial skills.
学校教育只专注于学术知识和专业技能的教育和培养，却忽视了理财技能的培训。

make sure 确保
例句：Make sure your original is clean and readable.
确保原稿整洁易读。

respond to对…做出反应， 响应
例句：He did not respond to her advances.
他对她的友好表示无动于衷。