51. Unlike most of the world's volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates that make up the earth's surface; on the contrary, many of them lie deep in the interior of a plate.
[參考譯文]跟世界上的大多數(shù)火山不同的是，它們(熱點(diǎn))并不總是在由構(gòu)成地球表面巨大漂流板塊之間的邊界上出現(xiàn);相反，它們中有許多位于一個(gè)板塊較縱深的內(nèi)部。
52. The relative motion of the plates carrying these continents has been constructed in detail, but the motion of the plates with respect to another cannot readily be translated into motion with respect to the earth's interior.
[參考譯文]攜帶這些大陸板塊的相對(duì)運(yùn)動(dòng)已經(jīng)能夠被詳細(xì)地表述出來(lái)，但是這些板塊相對(duì)于另一些板塊的運(yùn)動(dòng)還不能輕易地解釋為它們相對(duì)于地球內(nèi)部的運(yùn)動(dòng)。
53. As the dome grows, it develops seed fissures (cracks); in at least a few cases the continent may break entirely along some of these fissures, so that the hot spot initiates the formation of a new ocean.
54. While warnings are often appropriate and necessary--the dangers of drug interactions, for example--and many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn't clear that they actually protect the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured.
[參考譯文]盡管警告常常是適當(dāng)而且必須的--比如對(duì)于藥物相互作用的危險(xiǎn)提出警告--許多警告還是按州或聯(lián)邦政府規(guī)定要求給出的，然而(我們)并不清楚，如果顧客受到傷害時(shí)，這些警告是不是確實(shí)可以使得生產(chǎn)者和銷售者豁免責(zé)任。
55. At the same time, the American Law Institute--a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight--issued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones.
[參考譯文]與此同時(shí)，美國(guó)法律研究所--由一群法官、律師和理論專家組成，他們的建議分量極重--發(fā)布了新的民事傷害法令指導(dǎo)方針，宣稱公司不必提醒顧客注意顯而易見(jiàn)的危險(xiǎn)，也不必連篇累牘地一再提請(qǐng)他們注意一些可能會(huì)出現(xiàn)的危險(xiǎn)。
56. In the past year, however, software companies have developed tools that allow companies to "push" information directly out to consumers, transmitting marketing messages directly to targeted customers.
[參考譯文]但是，在過(guò)去的一年間，軟件公司已經(jīng)開(kāi)發(fā)出工具，使得公司可以直接將信息"推出"給顧客，直接把營(yíng)銷訊息傳遞給目標(biāo)顧客。
57. The examples of Virtual Vineyards, Amazon.com, and other pioneers show that a Web site selling the right kind of products with the right mix of interactivity, hospitality, and security will attract online customers.
[參考譯文]像Virtual Vineyards，Amazon.com這樣的先驅(qū)網(wǎng)站表明，一個(gè)將交互性、熱情服務(wù)和安全性合理結(jié)合以銷售同類商品的網(wǎng)址是可以吸引網(wǎng)上客戶注意的。
58. An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in the classroom on the behalf of students' career prospects and those arguing for computers in the classroom for broader reasons of radical education reform.
[參考譯文]有些人為了學(xué)生的就業(yè)前景為教室里放置電腦而辯，有些人為教育的徹底改革中更為廣泛的理由為教室里放置電腦而辯，這兩群人之間有一條無(wú)形的界線。
59. Rather, we have a certain conception of the American citizen, a character who is incomplete if he cannot competently access how his livelihood and happiness are affected by things outside of himself.
[參考譯文]我們更應(yīng)該具有的是作為美國(guó)公民的某種觀念，這個(gè)公民人物如果不能很恰當(dāng)?shù)卣J(rèn)識(shí)到自己的生存和幸福是如何受到自身之外的事物的影響，那么其公民特征就是不完整的。
60. Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind of professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations.
[參考譯文]另外，在我們這么一個(gè)大國(guó)里，經(jīng)濟(jì)延展到這么多的州、涉及到這么多的國(guó)際公司，因而要按照數(shù)量培養(yǎng)出所需的各類專業(yè)人員是不大可能的
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