Driving today demands lightning reflexes.
如今驾车需要飞快的反应。
Lightning is caused by clouds discharging electricity.
闪电是由云层放电产生的。
Lightning strikes caused scores of fires across the state.
雷击给整个州造成了数十起火灾。
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。
"Lightning is not perfectly well behaved," says Bernstein.
伯恩斯坦说：“闪电并不会完全听话。”
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。
Those that have disappeared were destroyed by fire as a result of lightning or civil war.
那些消失的是由于闪电或内战而被烧毁的。
Lightning is a brilliant flash of light produced by an electrical discharge from a storm cloud.
闪电是一种因为暴风云放电而产生的一种明亮闪光。
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。
Lightning floodlights gnarled trees and a giant iron bell. Monks with umbrellas flit about in robes and slippers.
闪电泛光灯照亮了盘根错节的古树和一具庞大的铁钟。和尚们打着伞，穿着僧衣和拖鞋四处走动。
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。
With a lightning "switch" at their fingertips, materials scientists could find out what happens when mighty currents meet matter.
有一个便于取用的闪电“转换器”，材料科学家们就可以弄清当强大的电流与物质相遇时会发生什么。
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。
The rocket site is providing precise measurements of lightning voltages and allowing engineers to check how electrical equipment bears up.
这个火箭发射场现在能对闪电电压进行精确测量，并可以让工程师们检测电气设备的负载。
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。
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