新概念第四册课文翻译及学习笔记Lesson42.pdfVIP

新概念第四册课文翻译及学习笔记 Lesson42 【课文】 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 What does a pen have to do to record on paper the vibrations generated by an earthquake? An earthquake comes like a thief in the night, without warning. It was necessary, therefore, to invent instruments that neither slumbered nor slept. Some devices were quite simple. One, for instance, consisted of rods of various lengths and thicknesses which would stand up on end like ninepins. When a shock came, it shook the