Wooden dance floors are designed to act like shock absorbers.
木制的舞蹈地板被设计成像是震动吸收者。
This may sound like shock therapy, but it is better than a slow death by starvation...
这可能听起来像是休克疗法，但它好过因缺乏资金而慢慢死亡。
Before, we were somehow like shock absorbers between Serbs and Albanians, but now we have our backs to the walls.
以前，某种意义上我们就是塞尔维亚和阿尔巴尼亚的减震器(shock absorber)，但现在我们陷入绝境、走投无路了。
An explosion rocked a natural-gas power plant Sunday in Middletown, Conn., sending earthquake-like shock waves miles away.
康涅狄格州米德尔敦一家天然气发电厂发生爆炸，形成如同地震一般的冲击波，影响达数英里。
One of the latest Suggestions is that such rippling disturbances are rather like shock waves spreading out from an explosion.
最近有种看法认为，这种涟漪式交通混乱与爆炸产生的冲击波特征相仿。
Michelin reckons this arrangement, which is now being tested in cars, could make other conventional parts, like shock absorbers, unnecessary.
这套系统正在测试，米其林预计以往的汽车部件像减震器就不需要了。
"This is really more like a psychological [shock] and then a panic," said Park.
朴女士说：“实际上，这更像是一种心理上的震撼，然后是恐慌。”
Other bloodsuckers like bedbugs produce heat shock proteins too-as do we, during a fever.
其他吸血动物如臭虫也会产生热休克蛋白——我们在发烧的时候也一样。
But a close look at the data suggests that the problem was mostly caused by extremely rapid nominal GDP growth, which actually tended to slow during energy shock periods like 1974 and 1980.
然而，仔细分析数据后表明，名义GDP飞速增长是通胀率上升的主要原因，但在能源冲击时期，如1974年至1980年，名义GDP增速实际上是趋于放缓的。
It was like reverse culture shock for me. I couldn't believe how much food they wasted.
这种震惊源于相反的文化，我不敢想象他们居然浪费那么多的食物。
I don't like listening to songs. "These words had given a shock to the singer's heart."
你是干唱歌的吧……我不喜欢听歌——这些话让歌星心灵震颤。
Public reaction has followed a pattern, beginning with shock and disbelief: "They seemed like the ideal couple, so perfect together."
公众对此种事件的反应已然形成一个套路，刚开始是震惊和怀疑：“他们不是一对模范夫妻吗？”
A BBC correspondent in L'Aquila said there was a strong after-shock around 2200GMT, which lasted for around two seconds and made the ground feel like jelly.
一位驻L'Aquila的BBC记者称格林尼治时间2200左右发生一起强烈余震，持续时间大约2秒钟，大地像果冻一样摇晃。
To my shock, none of them seemed like gold diggers.
是我吃惊的是，她们没有一个像是钓金龟婿的——也就是说，她们绝不会与1米8以下的人约会。
Wizards constantly left little gifts outside my tent, like tiny roses that exploded into great bursts of color in my hands—not my favorite, given the shock factor.
魔法师经常在我帐篷外面留下小礼物，比如在我手上爆破成巨大的彩色烟花的小玫瑰——不是我所喜欢的，因为那个吓人的因素。
I love that song, Michael is the greatest, and then they said he was dead and I was just like in shock.
迈克尔是最伟大的歌手。但是当他们接着说他已经去世了的时候，我太震惊了。
These consist of shock absorbers, like those used in passive systems, but they can be adjusted to relax or stiffen when necessary.
这系统由防震器组成，如同在无源系统中使用那样，只是它们能在有必要时调整松紧。
Humans, like rats, can be trained in alaboratory to fear an innocuous stimulus—a sound or a color—by pairingit with a shock.
人类如同白鼠一样都可以在实验室里训练至害怕一种无害的刺激——一种声音或者颜色——同时给予电击即可。
So it comes as a shock when somebody like Immelt speaks his mind on China, even at what was apparently a private event.
因此当像伊梅尔特这样的人说出了他对中国的真实看法时(即使显然是在私人活动中)，也令人感到震惊。
Like a shock from a defibrillator, a personal and visceralcrusade is what jump-starts a company from a daydream to somethingtangible.
就像心脏电击器的脉冲一样，是人们真挚的梦想把创业公司从白日梦变成了触手可得的东西。
An arch in the foot would provide leverage to push off the ground at the start of a stride and then help absorb shock when the foot meets ground again, suggesting Lucy's feet were much like ours.
足部的拱形类似杠杆的作用，在迈步时起到蹬地作用，并且在脚着地时起到吸收冲击力的作用，这暗示露西的脚与我们现代人的很相似。
I opened it, and I got the shock of my life when I saw a young black girl huddled in the corner, shivering like she was freezing, and bleeding all over the floor!
打开门，我差点儿被眼前的一切吓死了，一个黑人小姑娘蜷缩在角落里，像是冷似的不停发抖，血流了一地！
This, he argues, risks creating a new, but different financial crisis—not a balance-of-payments shock like last time, but booms and busts in asset markets.
他认为，这种行为制造了一个新的不同以往的金融风险，上次是收支失衡，这次将是资产市场的巨大泡沫的产生和破裂。
As objects travel through the air, the air molecules are pushed aside with great force and this forms a shock wave much like a boat creates a bow wave.
随着物体在空气中飞过，气体分子被强大的力推到一边，形成了一个船的舷波一样的冲击气流。
As objects travel through the air, the air molecules are pushed aside with great force and this forms a shock wave much like a boat creates a bow wave.
随着物体在空气中飞过，气体分子被强大的力推到一边，形成了一个船的舷波一样的冲击气流。
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