2020年新高考英语二卷阅读理解C篇讲解(2)

一场灾难得以避免。
The story is one of scores in To Forgive Design：Understanding Failure, a book that is at once a love letter to engineering and a paean(赞歌)to its breakdowns.
这个故事是这本书《To Forgive Design：Understanding Failure》中的其中一件事:这是一本书,一本致工程学的情书，也是对故障的赞歌。
Its author, Dr. Henry Petroski, has long been writing about disasters.
其作者亨利·彼得罗夫斯基(Henry Petroski)博士长期以来一直在写有关灾难的文章。
In this book, he includes the loss of the space shuttles(航天飞机)Challenger and Columbia, and the sinking of the Titanic.
在这本书中,他包括损失航天飞机(航天飞机),挑战者号和哥伦比亚号和泰坦尼克号的沉没。
Though he acknowledges that engineering works can fail because the person who thought them up or engineered them simply got things wrong, in this book Dr. Petroski widens his view to consider the larger context in which such failures occur.
尽管他承认工程工作可能会失败，因为那些想出或设计它们的人只是把事情搞错了，但在这本书中，Petroski博士拓宽了他的视野，以考虑这些失败发生的更大背景。
Sometimes devices fail because a good design is constructed with low quality materials incompetently applied.