求英语文章翻译In some ways, the United States has made some progres

求英语文章翻译
In some ways, the United States has made some progress. Fires no longer destroy 18,000 buildings as they did in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, or kill half a town of 2,400 people, as they did the same night in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Other than the Beverly Hill Supper Club fire in Kentucky in 1977, it has been four decades since more than 100 Americans died in a fire.
But even with such successes, the United States still has one of the worst fire death rates in the world. Safety experts say the problem is neither money nor technology, but the indifference(无所谓) of a country that just will not take fires seriously enough.
American fire departments are some of the world's fastest and best-equipped. They have to be. The United States has twice Japan's population, and 40 times as many fires. It spends far less on preventing fires than on fighting them. And American fire -safety lessons are aimed almost entirely at children, who die in large numbers in fires but who, against popular beliefs, start very few of them.
Experts say the error is an opinion that fires are not really anyone's fault. That is not so in other countries, where both public education and the law treat fires as either a personal failing or a crime(罪行). Japan has many wood houses; of the 48 fires in world history that burned more than 10,000 buildings, Japan has had 27. Punishment for causing a big fire can be as severe as life imprisonment.
In the United States, most education dollars are spent in elementary schools. But, the lessons are aimed at too limited a number of people; just 9 percent of all fire deaths are caused by children playing with matches.
The United States continues to depend more on technology than laws or social pressure. There are smoke detectors in 85 percent of all homes. Some local building laws now require home sprinklers (喷水装置). New heaters and irons shut themselves off if they are tipped.

在某些方面,美国已经取得了一定的进步.不再会破坏18,000建筑火灾的像他们一样在1871年,芝加哥大火的或者杀死半镇的人,当他们2,400人在Peshtigo当夜,威斯康辛州.贝弗莉山晚饭以外的其他俱乐部1977年,火在肯塔基州,我们已经等了4年后超过100个美国人死于一场火灾的.
但是即使有这种成功,美国依然是最严重的火灾的死亡率,在世界上.安全专家说,问题是不受金钱、科技,但所显示出的漠不关心(无所谓)的国家就将不承担火灾足够的重视.
美国消防部门有一些世界上最快的和最好的装备.他们必须如此.美国已经两次日本人口,40倍的火灾.它花费少得多的比在预防火灾与他们对抗.和美国的火-safety课的目的是为了孩子,几乎完全是在中大量的人死于大火肆虐,但是谁,对流行的信仰,开始很少数的人.
专家说这个错误是认为:火灾都不是真正的谁的错.,这并不那么在其他国家,当两种公共教育和法律对火灾为任何一个个人的失败或犯罪(罪行).日本有许多木房屋;48在世界历史上燃烧的大火超过一万幢建筑,与日本有27岁.引起一场大火惩罚可以那么严重无期徒刑.
在美国,大多数时间都花在教育美元在小学里.但是,这里的课程是针对太有限了许多人;只有9%的火灾造成的死亡人数是孩子们玩火柴.
美国将更多的依赖技术比法律或社会压力.有烟雾探测器在85%的所有家庭.一些当地的建筑法律现在需要回家洒水装置(喷水装置).如果他们被打翻,新的加热器和铁关闭了自己.