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If you live in Britain, the U.S., start preparing now. 生活在英国和美国的人们可能要开始着手准备应对天外飞来的横祸了。 Scientists have drawn up a league table of the countries which will be worst affected in the event of an asteroid strike. 有科学家们已经制定出了一张表单，内容是当发生小行星撞击地球时，将遭受到最严重后或影响的国家名单。 They have identified for the first time those which will suffer catastrophic loss of life or be so crippled it will be almost impossible for them to recover. 科学家们首次确定了在发生灾难时，那些将出现巨大生命伤亡以及财产损失，严重到几乎没有可能复原的国家。 Developed countries make up the majority of those on the list, but China is there too because of the sheer number of people who would die. 这份名单中发达国家占了绝大多数，不过因为中国人口数量庞大，若真的发生撞击地球的灾难，伤亡程度更是不言而喻。 Even smaller countries like Sweden are in grave danger because of the damage to their infrastructure. 尽管国土面积不大，但瑞典这样的国家也处于危险之中，因为灾难将对基础设施造成极大的破坏。 The list has been compiled by researchers from the University of Southampton using software called called NEOimpactor, short for NASA's ‘NEO’ or Near Earth Object programme. | 
