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本文格式为 Word版，下载可编辑 2022 考研英语阅读模拟海啸 Modelling tsunamis 模拟海啸 The dangers of insularity 岛国的危急 Islands may amplify the biggest waves, not breakthem 岛屿可能会增加海啸，而不会减弱海啸 SURFERS shun beaches shielded by islands off the coast. 冲浪者不会去海中的岛屿的沙滩上去冲浪。 That, as generations of swarthy, golden-haired hulks will tell you, is because such islandscreate a natural breakwater. 一代又一代的金发肤色乌黑的冲浪者会告知你，那是由 于这类小岛形成自然 的防波堤。 Thisdampens waves and makes for a boringly calm surf best left to sunbathers. 这类岛屿的沙滩海浪较小，海面很安静，最适合晒日光 浴的人了。 The surfers reasoning is sound for the short-wave, wind-generated swells that they ride. 较短、由风产生浪比较适合冲浪，对于这种浪来说，这 种解释很合理。 But Themistoklis Stefanakis, of the Ecole Normale 1 / 5 本文格式为 Word版，下载可编辑 Superieure in Cachan, France, warns itmay not be true for the longer wavelengths of tsunamis. 但是，来 自法国卡尚高等师范学校 Themistoklis Stefanakis 警告说，对于波浪较长的海啸来说，就不一样了。 As he and his colleagues show in a paper posted on arXiv, an online repository, littoral islandsmay actually exacerbate, rather than diminish, the effects of these waves. 如Themistoklis Stefanakis 跟他的同事在线数据库arXiv 发表的文章中所描述的的那样：实际上沿海的岛屿可能会增 加长波浪的强度，而不是减弱。 Anecdotal evidence for this counterintuitive assertion comes from episodes where thesame tsunami has battered different types of coastal topography. 这种违反直觉的推断的轶事证据来自很少见的现象同 一海啸会造成不同的海岸地貌。 In 20xx, for instance, when one hit the Mentawai islands in Indonesia, areas of coastlinedirectly behind islets bore the brunt of the damage, according to Costas Synolakis, atsunami expert at the University of Southern California who is one of the studys co-authors. 例如，20xx 年印度尼西亚明达威岛遭受的海啸，明