We were awoken by a pounding at the door.

我们被砰砰的敲门声吵醒。

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At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.

至少，它让我们从轻易致富和拥有更大房子的狂热梦想中醒来，并为一个不计后果的个人消费时代画上了一个必然的句号。

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Of his stay there, he recalled that each morning he was awoken by the monks chanting or by the ringing of the bell seen here.

在回忆在方广岩的那段日子时，他说，每天早上，他都在僧侣念经的声音或者撞钟的声音里醒来。

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Russians were awoken to the threat posed by the destruction of a hydroelectric plant last year, when a major accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in Siberia threatened the lives of millions of people downstream.

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But Trump's tweet could indicate that the Florida senator has awoken the elbow-throwing Trump.

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With U.S. oil imports hitting a 17-year low, the mainstream media has awoken to the fact that, as I pointed out three years ago, peak oil is not happening anytime soon.

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But it his fear -- as the title of his new book, "The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change" (it is called "With Speed and Violence" in the U.S.), suggests -- that we still haven't fully realised the apocalyptic forces we have awoken and the reality of what is at stake if global warming continues untrammelled.

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