The pain is bad,but it`s liveable .

操劳是不好,不过倒是有价值.

The house is not liveable .

该屋不适宜居住.

make life liveable

使生活充满意义.

||1:ON A hot July day in 1902, the world's first air conditioner was switched on in Brooklyn.||2:Since then, air conditioning has saved lives, raised productivity and made the American South liveable in the summer.||3:Yet as it turns 110, critics fume that the technology cooks the planet even as it cools homes.||4:As Stan Cox points out in his book, "Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World", America uses more energy for air conditioning than Africa uses for everything.||5:Enter Advantix Systems, a firm that makes air-conditioning systems that consume 30-50% less energy than conventional ones.

||1:1902年的炎热7月，世界上第一台空调在布鲁克林区开始运转。||2:自从那时起，空调就开始拯救生命、提高生产力，并且让夏天的南非更适于生活。||3:时值110年后，批抨者们却很不满，因为这项科技成果既加热了地球，也加热了我们的家。||4:正如Stan Cox在他所写的《失去我们的清凉：我们这个被空调冷却的世界中，一些让人不安的事实》一书中指出的，美国在制冷方面消耗的能源比非洲总的能源消耗还多。||5:Enter Advantix Systems是一家空调制作商，其产品能耗比普通产品少30%-50%。

Since then, air conditioning has saved lives, raised productivity and made the American South liveable in the summer.

自从那时起，空调就开始拯救生命、提高生产力，并且让夏天的南非更适于生活。

The EIU, a sister company of The Economist, ranked it the most liveable city in America.

TE的一家姐妹公司把匹兹堡列为全美最宜居城市。

Yet for all that, Shanghai is in lots of ways a more liveable city.

但尽管如此，上海从很多方面说都更适于居住。

Winter Olympics host Vancouver is the most liveable city in the world, according to the latest rankings by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

经济学人信息社的最新调查显示，2010年冬奥会主办地温哥华是全球最宜居城市。

Thinking four centuries ahead, Sanderson returns to the question of how to build liveable cities.

思考着未来的四百年，桑德森回到了原来的问题：如何建造适宜人类居住的城市？

How does it provide a liveable habitat for people?

它如何为人类提供一个适宜的居住地？