In the days after Jackson's death, music critics stumbled over one another to praise him for the way he blended black music and white as well as for the rigor of his stage performances.

在杰克逊死后的日子里，音乐批评家们不得不结结巴巴地，一个接一个地赞扬了他混合白人与黑人音乐的方法，就像以前赞扬他对待舞台表演的严肃态度那样。

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Indeed, the decay of Congo's Belgian-built roads, which in 1960 ran to over 100, 000km, must rank as one of the greatest boons to forests since the Black Death.

实际上刚果在比利时统治时期修筑的道路，建于1960年全长100,000千米，的坍塌，是继黑死病后对森林的又一恩惠。

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Indeed, the decay of Congo's Belgian-built roads, which in 1960 ran to over 100,000km, must rank as one of the greatest boons to forests since the Black Death.

实际上刚果在比利时统治时期修筑的道路，建于1960年全长100,000千米，的坍塌，是继黑死病后对森林的又一恩惠。

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The integration of China's 1.3 billion people will be as momentous for the world economy as the Black Death was for 14th-century Europe, but to the opposite effect.

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He said many militants had probably left the insurgent city and entered the area known as the "triangle of death" where the three Black Watch soldiers were killed on Thursday.

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Commerce was already associated with infection during the Black Death, though it would be hundreds of years before rats were singled out as its carrier, and the first quarantines followed soon after.

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