For six weeks Marysville has been sealed off as investigators looked for signs of arson, while forensic teams had the gruesome task of searching for victims among the charred wreckage of homes, businesses and cars.

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It's kind of gruesome but we know there are some things you don't need your brain for.

听上去有些可怕,但却使我们知道了,有些活动是无需大脑参与的

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He would gladly have sacrificed them in order to keep the much more virtuous and pure Lycidas -a gruesome proposal, but it's a gruesome proposal that suggests a primitive desire for a quid pro quo.

他很乐意牺牲了他们,来维持更为纯洁纯粹的,这是一首令人毛骨悚然的提议,暗示着一种最原始的复仇的欲望。

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What I'm inviting you to think about is which one, if you had to choose between these two gruesome scenarios, which one would you rather save?

这里我要请大家思考的是，哪一个，如果你必须在这两个残忍情境中作出抉择，你会救哪一个？

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Brooks emerged from his conscientious objection " to share in the gruesome bounty.

虽然良心上极力拒绝，但布鲁克斯,最终还是加入了这骇人的“盛宴。

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And it's not because of some sort of gruesome, morbid curiosity.

也不是因为对可怕的病态心理的好奇

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There have been cases,gruesome as they may be, in which entire groups of people drink poison together so as to die not alone, but die together,die as part of jointly dying,dying as a group.

有过一些例子，虽然听起来很可怕，一群人一起喝毒药以免孤单的死去，而是共同死亡，作为群体行为的一部分。

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So here's the gruesome accident.

再次回到那次可怕事故。

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So suppose,gruesome as it was,this weekend I'm in some horrible accident and my torso gets destroyed and they keep my brain on life support, oxygenating it just long enough to do some radical surgery into some spare torsos.

来做个可怕的假设，我在周末惨遭事故,肉体完全损坏，只剩大脑靠系统维持生命，持续补氧到能被高超手术植入另外的身体。

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