More Earthquakes Happened in China Than Before?

In recent years, Chinese people think thatthere are so many disasters happened in China, especially the earthquake. Thenewspapers is flooded with the reports about the big earthquakes such as thosehappened in Wen chuan,Ya’an, and Gan Su. Some people are becoming confused andasking: Did earthquakes happen more frequently than before? Why? Actually,China is always the most affected by earthquake in the world.

近幾年，中國(guó)的人們認(rèn)為中國(guó)發(fā)生了很多災(zāi)難，特別是地震。各大報(bào)紙充斥著關(guān)于許多大地震的報(bào)道，如發(fā)生在汶川，雅安，甘肅等地的地震。人們開(kāi)始變得很困惑，地震比以前發(fā)生得更頻繁了嗎？為什么？實(shí)際上中國(guó)是世界上受地震危害最嚴(yán)重的國(guó)家。

The first reason why people deem moreearthquake disasters happened than the past is that they don’t familiar withgeography situations of their own country. The experts said that most Chinesepeople are not familiar with the truth that China is the one of the countriesmost affected by earthquake in the world. It is said that the in the westernregion of China the earthquake on the frequency and intensity is higher than inthe eastern region. The reason why people do not hear the news about westernregion’s earthquakes is that few people lived in these places and no one died.

人們認(rèn)為地震發(fā)生得比過(guò)去多的第一個(gè)原因是中國(guó)人們對(duì)自己國(guó)家的地理情況不是很了解。據(jù)專家說(shuō)大部分中國(guó)人都不知道這樣一個(gè)事實(shí)，那就是中國(guó)是世界上地震災(zāi)害最嚴(yán)重的國(guó)家之一。據(jù)說(shuō)在中國(guó)西部地震發(fā)生的頻率和密度都比在中國(guó)東部的地震高。人們很少知道西部地區(qū)發(fā)生地震是因?yàn)槟切┑卣鸢l(fā)生在無(wú)人居住的地方，無(wú)人死亡。

The second reason is that the advancementof communication technology and people’s more attentions on the environmentalproblems. With the different kinds of exploitation and the destruction of theenvironment, more and more people become to notice that the earth has beenhotter and hotter, which the widely spread phenomenon--global warming--iswell-known for Chinese. So they begin to care about the relationship with thenature. Besides the advanced communication technology like the Internet, TV,and radio help the bad news about disaster spread all over the country and eventhe world. These reports about disaster flooded the newspaper, TV, and thewebsite, thus making people think there are so many earthquakes happened.

第二個(gè)原因是先進(jìn)交流技術(shù)和人們對(duì)環(huán)境問(wèn)題的關(guān)注。由于各種對(duì)環(huán)境的開(kāi)采和破壞，越來(lái)越多的人們開(kāi)始發(fā)現(xiàn)地球變得越來(lái)越熱，人們也認(rèn)識(shí)到了全球變暖這個(gè)普遍的溫室現(xiàn)象。于是他們開(kāi)始關(guān)心跟自然的關(guān)系。此外那些先進(jìn)的交流技術(shù)如網(wǎng)絡(luò)，電視和收音機(jī)都使得關(guān)于災(zāi)難的壞消息全國(guó)皆知，甚至傳至世界。于是關(guān)于災(zāi)難的報(bào)道涌現(xiàn)在報(bào)紙，電視和網(wǎng)頁(yè)上，這使得人們覺(jué)得地震變多了。

 In a word, people have the wrongthought of more earthquakes happened in China than before is because the lackof knowledge on their country’s geography, and the misunderstanding made by theemerged overwhelming news.

總而言之，人們會(huì)有中國(guó)地震發(fā)生得比以前多的誤解是因?yàn)閷?duì)中國(guó)地理情況的不了解，以及由過(guò)多的地震報(bào)道導(dǎo)致的錯(cuò)解。