Despite leaving at least 1,500 dead, tens of millions displaced, and millions of acres of agricultural land in ruin, this year's Pakistan flood, for example, wasn't unprecedented.

尽管造成至少1500人死亡，数以百万计人无家可归，数百万亩农田遭到破坏，但今年巴基斯坦这场洪灾并不是史前规模最大的。

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Despite leaving at least 1, 500 dead, tens of millions displaced, and millions of acres of agricultural land in ruin, this year's Pakistan flood, for example, wasn't unprecedented.

尽管造成至少1500人死亡，数以百万计人无家可归，数百万亩农田遭到破坏，但今年巴基斯坦这场洪灾并不是史前规模最大的。

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At least 4 people are dead and dozens of homes destroyed in wildfires racing across thousands of acres of grassland dried out by the worst Texas drought in decades.

德克萨斯的火灾中至少四人死亡， 多处房屋被毁， 大火蔓延了因近十年来由于最严重的旱灾而干枯的数千英亩草地。

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In the past month, armed gangs of settlers have tried to prevent Palestinian farmers from harvesting the olive crop, leaving at least one Palestinian dead and acres of farmland torched.

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Hoping to recoup some of the timber and toss much-needed work to sawmills, the Forest Service proposed to sell 370 million board feet of lumber from dead trees and replant 30, 000 acres.

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This failed to satisfy some relatives of the dead, who wanted the entire sixteen acres preserved as a memorial, and also people who thought that the Twin Towers should be replaced with a new business district as quickly as possible.

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