Minefields are areas filled with randomly scattered explosives: one can be pretty sure that some of them, some time, will explode -but one can't say with any degree of certainty which ones and when.

雷区是充满随机分布的爆炸的区域：我们可以确定它们中的一些，在某个时候，会爆炸——但我们不能以任何程度的确定新说要爆炸的是哪个区域以及何时爆炸。

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The rest might still be scattered all over the area -staying with friends or living in camps.

其他人可能仍然分散在该地区的各处：住在朋友家或难民营。

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With mounting quantities of data lying scattered, the challenge of locating certain pieces of information in a timely manner can be a scaling issue.

由于分散的数据数量庞大，因此及时定位特定信息块可能会成为严峻的挑战。

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The woman's son said his mother, who did not want to be identified, planned to have her own ashes scattered with her husband's.

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It showed a heavily damaged building as well as what appeared to be a chicken farm with some chickens pecking around in debris scattered with dead birds.

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