The fire gradually got bigger and bigger. Sparks flew off in all directions.

火势逐渐变得越来越大。火花四处飞溅。

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Suddenly the fire alarm went off. We all rushed out the door.

突然，火警警报响了。我们都冲出门去。

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Rubbish collection would be reduced. (This is all worryingly close to the New York of the 1970s, when rubbish went uncollected, fire stations closed and police officers were laid off.)

垃圾处理站将被消减(这简直和70年代的纽约并无二异了，那时候垃圾无法及时处理、消防局关门，警察下岗的窘境令人担心。)

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Worse, despite fire alarms going off all over the place, operators had shut down the reactor slowly by hand instead of hitting the panic-button to close the reactor immediately.

ECONOMIST: Japan

It may be that we are all huddled together around the fire and trying to fight off that sense of the inevitable.

NEWYORKER: We Are Alive

For investors, it was bad enough that the action alone indicated the Fed believes the economy and threat of a global recession have become so alarming that it could wait no longer and had to fire off such a huge barrage of measures all at once, virtually emptying its arsenal of meaningful weapons.

FORBES: Enough With The Fed's Transparency Already