Unit 4-5 句子翻译[模版]

第一篇：Unit 4-5 句子翻译[模版]

1.既然我们已经完成了设计,就该由公司来进行建设了.(now that;in one's turn)

Now that we have finished the design, it’s the company' turn to build it.2.火灾没有造成太大损失,因为消防人员及时赶到了.(in time)

There was no too large loss in the fire, because the fire fighters arrived in time.3.由于强大的引力,飞船被拖得离卫星很近.(gravity;pull;satellite;spaceship)

Because of the large gravity, the spaceship was pulled to be close to the satellite.4.沙尘暴导致了连锁反应,最后造成火车撞毁.(chain;reaction;crash)

The sandstorm caused the chain reaction, and finally made the trains crashed.5.老师幽默的谈话让我们很振奋,班里的气氛也放松了下来.(atmosphere;cheer up)

The teacher's humorous words made us cheer up, and the atmosphere in the class was relaxed.6.别打扰她.她昨晚刚生了一个男孩,现在还在睡觉.(give birth to)

Don't disturb her, please.She just gave birth to a boy, and now was sleeping.7.大部分证据都被毁了.因此,不可能证明这种药物是有害的.(harmful;thus)

Since most evidence was destroyed, thus, we can't prove this medicine is harmful.8.云就是漂浮在空中的大片的非常细小的水滴.(float;mass)

The cloud is a mass of small water drops that is floating in the air.Unit 5

1.小时候,在黑暗中睡觉让我感到很害怕.(terrify)

When I was young, sleeping in the dark often terrified me.2.按照传统,鹰常常被人们当作勇气的标志.(tradition;eagle)

According to the tradition, the eagle is usually thought to be the symbol of courage.3.市区的交通总是很糟糕,我每天大概要花一个小时才能回到家.(approximately;downtown)The traffic of downtown is always so bad that I have to spend an hour approximately everyday to go home.4.这座城市里宽敞的马路上者种满了灌木各枫树.(broad;bush;maple)

The broad streets of this city are full of bushes and maples.5.她的衣着和行为证实了我的猜想——她确实很富有.(confirm;wealthy)

Her clothes and behaviors confirms my guess that she is rich.6.站在塔顶上,我发现自己被云雾包围着.然而我仍能看到远处的山.那迷人的景色给我留下了深刻的印象.(surround;in the distanced;scenery;impress)

Standing on the top of the tower, I found myself surrounding by the cloud, however, I could still see the mountains in the distance.The scenery impressed on me deeply.7.他善于交流,所以在工作中他和各种人打交道都应付自如.(have a gift for;mix;manage)He has a gift for communicating with others, so he can manage to communicate with the mix.8.据我所知,距离汽车站不到一百米就有一个银行.(as far as;within)

As far as I know, there is a bank within 100 meters far from the bus station.

第二篇：Unit 1-Unit5翻译

Unit 1 Translate the following sentences into English.Lesson 1 1.—你好，安娜。你的老师叫什么名字？—他叫蒂姆。—Hi, Anna.What’s your teacher’s name?

—Tim.2.—他从哪儿来，安娜？—他从新西兰来。—Where is he from, Anna?

—He is from New Zealand.3.—他们是从美国来的吗？—不是，他们是从英国 来的。—Are they from the USA ?

—No, they are from the United Kingdom 4.今天他们不太高兴。

They are not very happy today.5.安娜现在不在迪厅。Anna is not at the disco now.Lesson 2 1.—你是医生吗？—不，我不是。我是记者。

Are you a doctor? No, I’m not.I am a journalist.2.—他是一个大公司的会计。

He is an accountant in a big company.3.—他们都是售货员吗？—是，他们都是。

Are they all shop assistants? Yes, they are.4.—他的女朋友住在波兰吗？—是的。

Does his girl friend live in Poland? Yes, she does.5.—你在哪儿工作？—我在一家商店工作。

Where do you work? I work in a store.Lesson 3 1.他们是印度人，他们讲印地语和英语。

They are Indians.They speak Hindi and English.2.他是秘鲁人，他讲西班牙语，不讲英语。

He is from Peru.He doesn’t speak English.He speaks Spanish.3.我是老师，我教中文。

I am a teacher.I teach Chinese.4.玛丽不喜欢吃鱼。

Mary doesn’t like eating fish.5.你会讲法语吗？是的，会一点。

Do you speak French? Yes, just a little.Unit 2 Lesson 1 1.这些孩子喜欢住在城市。

These children love to live in the city.2.这是我的堂兄弟。

This is my cousin.3.这是你的英语老师吗？

Is this your English teacher?

4.这两位妇女来自同一个村庄。

These two women are from the same village.5.这是一座古老而美丽的城市。

This is an old and beautiful city.Lesson 2

1.乔是做什么工作的？

What does Joe do?

2.罗尼每天都乘公共汽车去上学吗？

Does Ronnie go to school by bus every day?

3.特丽是在芝加哥工作吗？

Does Terry work in Chicago?

4.萨姆经常来看你吗？

How often does Sam come to see you?

5.碧和露西在同一所学校读书吗？

Do Bea and Lucy study at the same school?

1.有些人让苔妮娅帮他们购买生日礼物。（present）

Some people ask Tania to help them to buy birthday presents.2.杰克每天在因特网上冲浪，为他们的电视节目寻找故事。（surf the Internet）

Jake surfs the Internet every day and looks for stories for their TV programs.3.他最近研究的每一个故事读起来都象一个新的世界。(research)

Every story he researched recently was like a new world.4.黛碧经常帮助那些工作繁忙的人照料他们养的狗。（look after）

Debbie often helps those busy people look after their dogs.5.她认为帮助他人是一项最完美的工作。(perfect)

She thinks that helping others is a perfect job.1.露西的工作是导游。

Lucy works as a tour/tourist guide.2.最近杰克每天在办公室要工作10小时以上。

Recently Jake works in his office for over ten hours every day.3.有时他们周末开车去郊外。

Sometimes they drive to the suburbs at the weekend.4.岁月不待人。

Time and tide wait for no man.5.他喜欢到全国各地去旅游。

He loves to travel around the country.Lesson 3 1.星期六雅迪通常10：30才醒来。(wake up)

On Saturday Jade usually wakes up at 10:30.2.蒂姆每天早晨起床后都要冲个澡。（have a shower）

Tim gets up and has a shower every morning.3.你早餐经常要喝一杯咖啡吗？（have a cup of coffee）

Do you often have a cup of coffee for breakfast? 4.许多大学生喜欢玩计算机游戏。（play computer games）

Many students love to play computer games.5.凯西每天上午10点左右离开家去购物。(do some shopping)

Cassie leaves her house to do some shopping at about 10 o’clock every morning.Unit 3 Lesson 1

1.拐角处有一家酒馆。

There is a pub just around the corner.2.公园附近有几家咖啡馆。

There are a few cafes near the park.3.这座城市没有大的购物中心。

There isn’t any big shopping center in the city.4.这里没有火车站。

There isn’t a train station here.5.—你家乡有电影院吗？—有。

Is there any cinema in your hometown?

Yes, there is.Lesson 2 1.爱玛和她的父母住在牛津，他们住在镇中心的一座小公寓里。(flat)

Emma lives in Oxford with her parents, in a small flat in the centre of the town.2.我大部分时间呆在客厅看电视或者呆在我的卧室里听音乐。(spend time doing sth.)

I spend most of my time watching TV in the living room or listening to music in my bedroom.3.我们学校有一个花园，里面长满了树木花草。(garden)

Our school has a garden with trees and flowers.4.这套房子有两个卧室、一个客厅、两个卫生间、一个书房和一间厨房。(living room)

The house has got two bedrooms, a living room, two bathrooms, a study and a kitchen.5.从阳台上，我可以看见大海。(balcony)

I can see/view the sea from the balcony.Lesson 3

1.客厅里有一个长沙发和一把扶手椅子。

There is a sofa and an armchair in the living room.2.角落里有一些书籍。

There are some books in the corner.3.这间屋子里没有壁炉。

There isn’t any/a fireplace in the room.4.书房里有几个书架。

There are bookshelves in the study.5.车上有CD机吗？

Is there a CD player in the car? Unit 4 Lesson 2 1.玛丽亚的母亲正在打扫客厅。

Maria’s mother is cleaning the sitting room.2.—孩子们在做作业吗?

—不, 他们在踢足球。

—Are the children doing their homework?

—No.They are playing football.3.—露西在做什么？

—她正在游泳。

—What is Lucy doing?

—She is swimming.4.—你这是去哪里？

—我去超市。

—Where are you going?

—I’m going to the supermarket.5.萨姆和他父亲正在打羽毛球。

Sam and his father are playing badminton

Lesson3 1.我的朋友玛吉是一位性格极好的女人。（character）

My friend, Margie, is a woman of fine character.2.他们能操纵这种新型的机器。（control）

They can control this new type of machine.3.他救了约翰, 没让他淹死。（save from）

He saved him from drowning.4.这个故事的结尾出人意料。（ending）

The story has a surprise ending.5.请查一下火车什么时候开。（find out）

Please find out when the train leaves.Lesson 4 1.他收藏着不少外国硬币。(collection)He has a very good collection of foreign coins.2.这是一座让人印象深刻的城堡。（impressive）

This is an impressive castle.3.博物馆里陈列着许多艺术收藏品。（on display）

There are a lot of art collections on display in the museum.4.去公园怎么样？（how about）

How about going to the park?

5.这是一部极好的电影。（fantastic）

This is a fantastic film.Unit 5 Lesson 1

1.里奇会演奏几种乐器。Rich can play several musical instruments.2.我的英语说得不好。I can’t speak English very well.3.娜奥米不会下象棋。Naomi cannot play chess.4.—本吉会做饭吗？

–Can Benji cook?

—会，但做得不是很好。–Yes, but not very well.5.—你会骑马吗？–Can you ride a horse?

—不，我不会。– No, I can’t.1.你能借我一把伞吗？

Can you lend me an umbrella? 2.克里斯有许多朋友。

Chris has many friends.3.他有很多钱。

He has a lot of money.4.你想喝点水么？

Would you like to have some water? 5.玛丽穿着一件游泳衣。

Mary is wearing a swimming costume.Lesson 2 1.丹尼今天下午坐火车去广州。

Dani is going to Guangzhou by train this afternoon.2.我爸爸明早飞往北京。

My father is flying to Beijing tomorrow morning.3.我们本周六晚上要为汤姆开一个生日派对。

We are having a birthday party for Tom on this Saturday evening.4.他要带女朋友去科西嘉岛过周末。

He is taking her girlfriend to Corsica for the weekend.5.安妮要过一个浪漫的周末。

Anne is spending/having a romantic weekend.1.昨晚我去参加了小刘的生日派对。

I went to Xiao Liu’s birthday party yesterday evening.2.我和父母一起过了一个愉快的周末。

I had a great weekend with my parents.3.上星期六那天阳光灿烂。

It was a sunny day last Saturday.4.昨天放学后安妮没有回家。

Anne didn’t go home after school yesterday.5.桑迪两年前不是医生。

Sandi wasn’t a doctor two years ago.Lesson 3 1.我们步行了几公里到了一个小村庄。（a couple of）

We walked a couple of kilometers to a small village.2.我们到达奥林帕斯山时太阳正好开始落山。（just as）

We arrived at Mount Olympus just as the sun started to go down.3.我们整夜打牌、讲故事打发时间。（pass the time）

We passed the time playing cards and telling stories all night.4.我的一个朋友弹吉他演奏了我们喜欢的所有歌曲。（play）

One of my friends played all our favourite songs with a guitar.5.那座燃烧的大山从远处看上去非常壮观。（fantastic）

The burning mountain looked fantastic from afar.Lesson 4 1.我们打算骑自行车从恩尼斯基林出发去贝尔里克村。（be starting）

We were starting in Enniskillen for Belleek by bicycle.2.我们沿着湖边往前走进入森林。（go along…up）

We went along a lake up into a forest.3.一路上都是下坡。（downhill, all the way）

It’s downhill all the way.4.晚上七点半爸爸在火车站接我们。（meet）

My father met us at the railway station at about 7:30.5.去考德威尔城堡花了我们几个小时。（take）

It took us a couple of hours to go to Castle Caldwell.

第三篇：unit 1--8翻译

Unit 1

How do you study for a test? 1.我是通过听录音来学习英语的。

2.我是通过制作词汇表来学习英语的。

3.你曾经和你的朋友们练习会话吗?

4.她说记忆流行歌曲的歌词也会有一些帮助。

5.魏明感觉不同。

6.我们对于一些事情会感到很兴奋，然后以用汉语说话而结束。

7.我在语法上犯很多的错误。

8.我没有可以练习英语的伙伴。

9.起初，她讲的太快。

10.我的老师被我感动了。

11.我在造完整的句子上有困难。

12.这种纸摸起来很柔软。

13.我们如何应付我们的问题。

14.除非我们解决了我们的问题，否则我们会感到不开心。

15.时光流逝，友谊失去。

16.在我们老师的帮助下，在我们的教育中尽我们最大的努力去应付每一个挑战是我们的责任。

Unit 2

I used to be afraid of the dark.1.–你过去矮，是不是？

--是的。

2.人是一定会变的。

3.我开着卧室的灯睡觉。

4.我过去花费很多的时间在玩游戏上。

5.我的生活在过去的几年时间里变化很大。

6.看上去他变化了很多。

7.他过去制造很多的麻烦。

8.虽然我的爸爸不再和我们在一起了，但是他会为我所做的每一件好事而感到骄傲。

9.甚至连老师都同意他在浪费时间。

10.她过去是短头，现在我把它留长了。

11.我踢足球，并且还在游泳队里。

12.他妈妈支付不起他孩子的教育费。

13.他经常陷入与警方的麻烦中。

14.我曾经努力使我的妈妈关注我。

Unit 3

Teenagers should be allowed to choose their own clothes.1.十六岁的青少年应该被允许扎耳朵眼。

2.它看上去不干净。

3.他们用说话来代替做作业。

4.他们在那个年龄段不够认真。

5.–我们有很多家规。--我们也是。

6.父母们不应该对青少年们太严格要求。

7.前几天，我和朋友们在一起谈论我们在校规则。

8.我们老师认为如果我们那么做，就会把精力放在衣服上，而不是学习上。

9.我知道我们有时有点吵，但是我们彼此也互相学习了很多。

10.去年夏天我有一个机会自愿在一个地方医院工作。

11.请打扫教室，太脏了！

12.我不能决定买哪条裤子，这两条穿在我身上都好看。

13.每人都需要至少8小时的睡眠。

14.一些学生应该被允许每个周五的下午放假来成为志愿者来帮助别人。

15.有时这些爱好会阻挡我们的学业。

16.我观看了他所有比赛的每一场。

17.我非常热爱跑步。

18.我的父母曾经一直教我努力工作的重要性。

Unit 4

What would you do? 1.如果你有100万美元，你会做什么？

2.如果我是你，我就会穿西装，扎领带。

3.如果别人没人都带了礼物怎么办啊?

4.我不知道如何去说，如何去做。

5.如果我是你，我会在上床睡觉前出去好好散步。

6.如果老师让你在全校面前做演讲你该怎么办？

7.如果你弟弟没有经过你的允许借了你的衣服，你该怎么办？我会告诉他要征得我的同意。

8.你有大量的朋友，而且你也喜欢和朋友们在一起。

9.你宁可呆在家里读一本好书，也不愿意去参加晚会。

10.如果你的朋友说了你的坏话你该怎么办？

11.他是一个有着许多处理青少年问题的经验的著名医生。

12.他的新书上个月出版了。

13.你应该把伤口用一块干净的布覆盖然后使劲挤压。

14.把烧伤的区域放在流动的凉水下。

15.我也要和你的朋友谈谈吸烟的危害。

16.你必须把药你放得远离儿童。

Unit 5

It must belong to Carla.1.这只钢笔一定是Carla的。（两种）

2.物主一定不是个男孩子。

3.这次考试很重要，因为它占期末考试的30%。

4.你认为 “anxious”是什么意思？

5.他可能是跑着去追公共汽车。

6.我想那一定是青少年们在闹着玩。

7.那一定是有什么东西在拜访邻居的家。

8.小心不叫的狗。

9.我用我的眼睛看，用耳朵听。

10.这件衬衫对他来说太小了。

11.她担心是因为考试。

12.在梦中，我在卷子的海洋中遨游。

13.不诚实还不如贫穷。

14.这是谁的书？（三种）

Unit 6

I like music that I can dance to.1.我喜欢有非常好歌词的音乐。

2.我喜欢可以跟着一起唱的音乐。

3.他喜欢可以写各种不同音乐的音乐家。

4.它让你回想起什么？它让我回想起巴西的舞蹈音乐。

5.那对我来说不是特别的重要。

6.你如何认为这本书？（两种）

7.这几年来他拍了一些伟大的电影。

8.Amy Kim是世界上最有名的中国摄影家之一。

9.无论你做什么，都不要错过这场展览会。

10.没有比它更好的了。

11.我无法忍受汉堡包，他们使我感到恶心。

12.我喜欢静静的传统音乐，所以这场音乐会非常适合我。

13.我只喜欢味道好的食物。

14.我远离糖，你也远离，是吗？

15.我听说过吃烧焦的食物能增大得癌症的几率。

16.我喜欢吃做的很好的肉，即使它有一点点焦。

17.主要的事情就是要有一个好的平衡。Unit 7

Where would you like to visit? 1.–你想去哪渡假？

--我喜欢穿越丛林。

2.我喜欢那的人们非常友好的地方。

3.我喜欢那的天气很温暖的地方。

4.我想去能让人放松的某地。

5.我希望有一天能去看看尼亚加拉大瀑布。

6.对于你的下一个假期，为什么不考虑去访问巴黎。

7.巴黎是法国的首都，同时也是欧洲最具活力的城市之一。

8.总而言之，法国是一个非常贵的地方。

9.那难道不被认为是很热的地方吗？

10.我希望你可以提供给我一些你们公司给出的关于多种旅游的信息。

11.如果我们可以住在带有厨房的屋子里，然后通过自己做饭来省钱就更好了。

12.我们想要离开大约3周时间。

13.上海每年的这个时候很冷。

14.我喜欢横渡太平洋。

15.这有一些关于希望和梦想的调查结果。

16.有梦想很重要，坚持你的梦想，总有一天他们会实现。

Unit 8

I’ll help clean up the city parks.1.我想使那些患病儿童振作起来。

2.你可以在食物救济站里发放食物。

3.你需要想出一个计划。

4.清洁日从现在算起只有2周时间了。

5.我们不能推迟制作这项计划。

6.他很像他的妈妈。（两种）

7.他的钱全花光了。

8.他张贴广告寻求旧自行车。

9.他想出来的那些策略运行良好。

10.他们两个都非常聪明，还有一点内向。

11.我会寄给你一张Lucky的照片。

12.你帮助我拥有Lucky成为一种可能，它使我的生活充满了快乐。

13.对我来说得到一条受过训练的狗成为可能。

14.钱被很好的应用来帮助像我一样的残疾人。

第四篇：酒泉子翻译

酒泉子翻译

常常想起钱塘江观潮的情景，满城的人争着向江上望去。潮水涌来时，仿佛大海都空了，潮声像一万面鼓齐发，声势震人。踏潮献技的人站在波涛上表演（技艺高超），手里拿着的红旗丝毫没被水打湿。此后几次梦到观潮的情景，梦醒时依然感觉心惊胆战。

长：通“常”，通假字，经常

心寒：心里感觉很惊心动魄

酒泉子改写

常常回忆当年看钱塘江潮的情况，一村的人都争在去观潮，潮水来的时候，那股气势好象要将整个海水倒灌，使人难免怀疑大海会不会变成空的。在万面鼓声中，弄朝儿稳稳的站在潮头上，而手里拿着的红旗都不曾经被浪花打湿。现在经常做梦梦到这些，梦醒之后，思乡之情常常使自己心痛。

第五篇：unit 2 课文翻译

Smart cars that can see, hear, feel, smell, and talk? And drive on their own? This may sound like a dream, but the computer revolution is set to turn it into a reality.能看、能听、有知觉、具嗅觉、会说话的智能汽车？还能自动驾驶？这听起来或许像是在做梦，但计算机革命正致力于把这一切变为现实。

Smart Cars智能汽车

Michio Kaku米其奥•卡库

Even the automobile industry, which has remained largely unchanged for the last seventy years, is about to feel the effects of the computer revolution.即便是过去70年间基本上没有多少变化的汽车工业，也将感受到计算机革命的影响。

The automobile industry ranks as among the most lucrative and powerful industries of the twentieth century.There are presently 500 million cars on earth, or one car for every ten people.Sales of the automobile industry stand at about a trillion dollars, making it the world's biggest manufacturing industry.汽车工业是20世纪最赚钱、最有影响力的产业之一。目前世界上有5亿辆车，或者说每10人就有1辆车。汽车工业的销售额达一万亿美元左右，从而成为世界上最大的制造业。

The car, and the roads it travels on, will be revolutionized in the twenty-first century.The key to tomorrow's “smart cars” will be sensors.“We'll see vehicles and roads that see and hear and feel and smell and talk and act,” predicts Bill Spreitzer, technical director of General Motors Corporation's ITS program, which is designing the smart car and road of the future.汽车及其行驶的道路，将在21世纪发生重大变革。未来“智能汽车”的关键在于传感器。“我们会见到能看、能听、有知觉、具嗅觉、会说话并能采取行动的车辆与道路，”正在设计未来智能汽车和智能道路的通用汽车公司ITS项目的技术主任比尔•斯普雷扎预言道。

Approximately 40,000 people are killed each year in the United States in traffic accidents.The number of people that are killed or badly injured in car accidents is so vast that we don't even bother to mention them in the newspapers anymore.Fully half of these fatalities come from drunk drivers, and many others from carelessness.A smart car could eliminate most of these car accidents.It can sense if a driver is drunk via electronic sensors that can pick up alcohol vapor in the air, and refuse to start up the engine.The car could also alert the police and provide its precise location if it is stolen.美国每年有大约4万人死于交通事故。在汽车事故中死亡或严重受伤的人数太多，我们已经不屑在报纸上提及。这些死亡的人中至少有半数是酒后开车者造成的，另有许多死亡事故是驾驶员不小心所导致。智能汽车能消除绝大多数这类汽车事故。它能通过会感测空气中的酒精雾气的电子传感器检测开车者是否喝醉酒，并拒绝启动引擎。这种车还能在遇窃后通报警方，告知车辆的确切地点。

Smart cars have already been built which can monitor one's driving and the driving conditions nearby.Small radars hidden in the bumpers can scan for nearby cars.Should you make a serious driving mistake(e.g., change lanes when there is a car in your “blind spot”)the computer would sound an immediate warning.能监控行车过程以及周围行车状况的智能汽车已经建造出来。藏在保险杠里的微型雷达能对周围的汽车作扫描。如果你发生重大行车失误（如变道时有车辆你“盲点”内），计算机立即会发出警报。

At the MIT Media Lab, a prototype is already being built which will determine how sleepy you are as you drive, which is especially important for long-distance truck drivers.The monotonous, almost hypnotic process of staring at the center divider for long hours is a grossly underestimated, life-threatening hazard.To eliminate this, a tiny camera hidden in the dashboard can be trained on a driver's face and eyes.If the driver's eyelids close for a certain length of time and his or her driving becomes erratic, a computer in the dashboard could alert the driver.在麻省理工学院媒介实验室，业已制造出能测知你行车时有多少睡意的样车，这对长途卡车司机意义尤其重要。一连数小时注视着中夹分道线这样一个单调、几乎能催眠的过程是被严重低估的威胁生命的重大隐患。为消除这一隐患，藏在仪表板里的一架微型相机可对准开车者的脸部及眼睛。如果司机的眼帘合上一定时间，行车变得不稳，仪表板里的计算机就会向司机发出警报。

Two of the most frustrating things about driving a car are getting lost and getting stuck in traffic.While the computer revolution is unlikely to cure these problems, it will have a positive impact.Sensors in your car tuned to radio signals from orbiting satellites can locate your car precisely at any moment and warn of traffic jams.We already have twenty-four Navstar satellites orbiting the earth, making up what is called the Global Positioning System.They make it possible to determine your location on the earth to within about a hundred feet.At any given time, there are several GPS satellites orbiting overhead at a distance of about 11,000 miles.Each satellite contains four “atomic clocks,” which vibrate at a precise frequency, according to the laws of the quantum theory.开车最头疼的两大麻烦是迷路和交通堵塞。虽然计算机革命不可能彻底解决这两个问题，但却会带来积极的影响。你汽车上与绕轨道运行的卫星发出的无线电信号调谐的传感器能随时精确地确定你汽车的方位，并告知交通阻塞情况。我们已经有24颗环绕地球运行的导航卫星，组成了人们所说的全球卫星定位系统。通过这些卫星我们有可能以小于100英尺的误差确定你在地球上的方位。在任何一个特定时间，总有若干颗全球定位系统的卫星在11000英里的高空绕地球运行。每颗卫星都装有4个“原子钟”，它们根据量子理论法则，以精确的频率振动。

As a satellite passes overhead, it sends out a radio signal that can be detected by a receiver in a car's computer.The car's computer can then calculate how far the satellite is by measuring how long it took for the signal to arrive.Since the speed of light is well known, any delay in receiving the satellite's signal can be converted into a distance.卫星从高空经过时发出能被汽车上计算机里的接收器辨认的无线电信号。汽车上的计算机就会根据信号传来所花的时间计算出卫星有多远。由于光速为人熟知，接收卫星信号时的任何时间迟缓都能折算出距离的远近。

In Japan there are already over a million cars with some type of navigational capability.(Some of them locate a car's position by correlating the rotations in the steering wheel to its position on a map.)在日本，具有某种导航能力的汽车已有一百万辆之多。（有些导航装置通过将方向盘的转动与汽车在地图上的位置并置来测定汽车的方位。）

With the price of microchips dropping so drastically, future applications of GPS are virtually limitless.“The commercial industry is poised to explode,” says Randy Hoffman of Magellan Systems Corp., which manufactures navigational systems.Blind individuals could use GPS sensors in walking sticks, airplanes could land by remote control, hikers will be able to locate their position in the woods--the list of potential uses is endless.随着微芯片价格的大幅度下降，未来对全球卫星定位系统的应用几乎是无限的。“制造这一商品的工业定会飞速发展，”生产导航系统的麦哲伦航仪公司的兰迪•霍夫曼说。盲人可以在手杖里装配全球卫星定位系统传感器，飞机可以通过遥控着陆，徒步旅行者可以测定自己在林中的方位—其潜在的应用范围是无止境的。

GPS is actually but part of a larger movement, called “telematics,” which will eventually attempt to put smart cars on smart highways.Prototypes of such highways already exist in Europe, and experiments are being made in California to mount computer chips, sensors, and radio transmitters on highways to alert cars to traffic jams and obstructions.全球卫星定位系统其实只是叫做“远程信息学”的这一更大行动的一部分，这一行动最终将把智能汽车送上智能高速公路。这种高速公路的样品已经在欧洲问世，加州也在进行试验，在高速公路上安装计算机芯片、传感器和无线电发射机，以便向汽车报告交通拥挤堵塞情况。

On an eight-mile stretch of Interstate 15 ten miles north of San Diego, traffic engineers are installing an MIT-designed system which will introduce the “automated driver.” The plan calls for computers, aided by thousands of three-inch magnetic spikes buried in the highway, to take complete control of the driving of cars on heavily trafficked roads.Cars will be bunched into groups of ten to twelve vehicles, only six feet apart, traveling in unison, and controlled by computer.在圣迭戈以北10英里的15号州际公路一段8英里长的路面上，交通工程师正在安装一个由麻省理工学院设计的引进“自动司机”的系统。这一计划要求计算机在公路上埋设的数千个3英寸长的磁钉的协助下，在车辆极多的路段完全控制车辆的运行。车辆会编成10辆或12辆一组，车距仅6英尺，在计算机的控制下一齐行驶。

Promoters of this computerized highway have great hopes for its future.By 2010, telematics may well be incorporated into one of the major highways in the United States.If successful, by 2020, as the price of microchips drops to below a penny a piece, telematics could be adopted in thousands of miles of highways in the United States.This could prove to be an environmental boon as well, saving fuel, reducing traffic jams, decreasing air pollution, and serving as an alternative to highway expansion.这种计算机化的公路的倡导者对其未来的应用充满希望。到2010年，远程信息技术很可能应用于美国的一条主要公路。如果成功的话，到2020年，当微芯片的价格降到一片一美分以下时，远程信息技术就会应用在美国成千上万英里的公路上。这对环保也会很有利，能节省燃油，减轻交通阻塞，减少空气污染，还可用作公路扩建的替代办法。