We need to anticipate a growing number of areas that will become disaster-prone.

我们需要预见到，越来越多的地区将来可能成为灾害易发地区。

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At a pace that no urban planner can control, slums spring up in disaster-prone areas-such as steep slopes, which are prone to floods, mudslides or particularly severe damage in an earthquake.

贫民窟的增长速度很快，就连城市规划者都不能控制。而贫民窟往往建在诸如陡坡等灾害多发地带，这些地带更容易遭到洪水、泥石流尤其是地震的破坏。

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A wooden structure in a disaster prone area normally works against our ambitions, requiring substantial sheer walls or braces to resist earthquakes.

对于灾害频繁的地区，木结构也会限制我们的设计，比如要求一些剪力墙和支柱来抵抗地震。

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In fact, it includes gadgets as prone to disaster as your car, and as intimate as the ones beneath your skin.

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Knowing that all of my clients lived in disaster-prone areas, I encouraged each family to create a personalized family disaster plan.

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Mr Nonaka must be regretting that he manipulated events to put the amiable but disaster-prone Mr Mori in charge.

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