Driving today demands lightning reflexes.
如今驾车需要飞快的反应。
The lightning could touch off wildfires in Eastern Washington.
闪电可能引发华盛顿东部的野火。
Weather forecasts predict more hot weather, gusty winds, and lightning strikes.
气象预报预测将有更多炎热、大风，和雷电天气。
His eyes glared like lightning.
他的目光犹如一道闪电。
Franklin's experiments showed that the lightning is an electrical discharge.
富兰克林的实验表明闪电是一种放电。
A bolt of lightning crossed the darkened sky, accompanied by a deafening thunder clap.
一道闪电划过漆黑的天空，伴随着震耳欲聋的雷声。
With entertainments and parties, the hours, the days, the weeks passed like lightning.
在娱乐和聚会中，一个钟头又一个钟头，一天又一天，一个星期又一个星期，像闪电似地过去了。
That is why the subsequent lightning that follows the completed channel often strikes a tall structure.
这就是接下来那些通过这条完整通道的闪电往往会击中高层建筑的原因。
It poured rain, it hailed, it thundered, and the lightning was so bright that it turned the night into day.
天下着大雨，下着冰雹，电闪雷鸣，闪电把黑夜照得像白天。
Pinocchio was greatly afraid of thunder and lightning, but the hunger he felt was far greater than his fear.
皮诺乔非常害怕打雷闪电，但他的饥饿感远远超过了恐惧。
At this stage, there is no lightning-bolt solution, but two things would prevent matters from getting worse.
在这个阶段，没有闪电般的解决方案，但有两件事可以防止事情变得更糟。
In 1752, Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a kite and flew it in a storm to find out that lightning was a form of electricity.
1752年，本杰明·富兰克林将一把钥匙系在风筝上，在暴风雨中放飞，他发现了闪电是电的一种形式。
EPRI, which is funded by power companies, is looking at ways to protect the United States' power grid from lightning strikes.
电力公司资助的电力资源研究院正在想办法保护美国电网免遭雷击。
But while rockets are fine for research, they cannot provide the protection from lightning strikes that everyone is looking for.
"然而，火箭虽然用来做研究是很好的，但却无法提供人们想要的免受雷击的保护。
There may be giant plankton on gaseous planets. They float in a thick atmosphere like small spaceships and live by "eating" lightning.
气态星球上可能存在巨型浮游生物。它们像小型飞船那样漂在厚厚的大气中，靠“吃”闪电获取能量为生。
"We can cause the lightning to strike where we want it to using rockets," says Ralph Bernstein, manager of lightning projects at EPRI.
美国电力研究协会（EPRI）负责闪电项目的经理拉尔夫·伯恩斯坦说：“我们可以用火箭让闪电打到我们想要的地方。”
Thunder, the shock wave that comes from a lightning flash, is thought to be the trigger for the torrential rain that is typical of storms.
雷电是由闪电产生的冲击波，它被认为是引发暴雨的原因，而暴雨是风暴的典型特征。
Using high-speed photography, scientists have determined that there are two steps to the occurrence of lightning from a cloud to the ground.
利用高速摄影技术，科学家们已经确定了闪电从云层到达地面有两个步骤。
He was deeply interested in science and natural history and his experiments with electricity and lightning led directly to the invention of the lightning rod.
他对科学和自然史非常感兴趣，且他对电和闪电的实验直接推动了避雷针的发明。
Then a strong current of electrons follows that path from the cloud to the ground, and it is that current that illuminates the channel as the lightning we see.
然后一股强大的电子电流沿着这条路径，从云层到达地面，正是这种电流像我们看到的闪电一样照亮了通道。
The coming together of the oppositely charged particles neutralizes the electrical tension and releases a tremendous amount of energy, which we see as lightning.
相反的带电粒子聚集在一起，抵消了电的张力，释放出大量的能量，就是我们看到的闪电。
The channel is only a few centimeters in diameter, but that is wide enough for electrons to follow the channel to the ground in the visible form of a flash of lightning.
这个通道的直径只有几厘米，但它的宽度足以让电子以闪电这样看得到的形式随着通道到达地面。
Ben Franklin, one of America's founding fathers, didn't just invent the lightning rod.
美国的开国元勋之一本·富兰克林不仅仅只发明了避雷针。
Ben Franklin, one of America' s founding fathers, didn't just invent the lightning rod.
美国的开国元勋之一本·富兰克林所发明的不仅仅是一个避雷针。
We heard a frightening sound after a bright flash of lightning.
一道明亮的闪电过后，我们听到一个可怕的声音。
If a person is hit by lightning, you should call for emergency help.
如果有人被闪电击中，你应该呼叫紧急救援。
With the coming of the following flashes of lightning, she repeated the same thing again and again.
伴随着接下来的闪电，她一遍又一遍地重复着同样的事情。
The lightning flashed out from the black clouds.
乌云中电光闪闪。
Arcing horns and lightning arresters are necessary because lightning strikes to the mast are common.
灭弧角和避雷器是必需的，因为雷击桅杆是很常见的。
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