The team has also approached the US Consumer Product Safety Commission to try to persuade manufacturers to adopt the new design. A decision is expected later this year.
注释:
1. So a team of engineers is redesigning the humble handlebar in a bid to make it safer.因此,一些 工程师正在重新设计这种欠合理的车把,以使其更安全。humble意为在级别上、质量上、 位置上低的bid在这里应作努力,企图,争取解。
2. after a study of serious abdominal injuries in children in the past 30 years showed:是一个时间状 语从句,主语是a study,谓语是showed。
3. The task was to identify how the injuries occurred and come up with some countermeasures.要 做的工作就是找出受伤的原因及其对策。be to +不定式可以表示按计划、安排将要发生的 事情。come up with意为找到。
4.were able to:在此句中表示过去曾经做成某事,相当于succeeded in doing sth. 。
5.topple over:翻倒
6. ramming it into their abdomen:把它压入他们的腹部。ram sth. into sth.意为将某物压入、打入或填入某物。
练习:
1.According to the passage, some engineers are trying to improve the handlebars because
A they are not noble enough.
B they may kill children.
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