Emergency crews there and in states all along the eastern seaboard were racing to correct the same problems: collapsed power lines, brought down by icing and wet, heavy snow.

当地以及沿东海岸的各个州的紧急事务工作人员都在回应同样的问题——电线瘫塌。

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Within months, investment banks in the United States began their death march as the once-soaring market for mortgage securities collapsed.

没过几个月，曾经高涨的抵押证券市场便崩盘了，美国的投资银行开始走向死亡。

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By the fall of 2008, the United States will have collapsed as a world power, and no longer exist as an independent nation.

到2008年秋天，美国这个超级大国将会瓦解，并将不再以一个独立国家的形式存在。

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This was a series put together by a British filmmaker who's actually narrating this named Antony Thomas who did a terrific-- I think six or seven part series for British television and several of those got collapsed into a one hour special on Nova that was shown in the United States.

这一系列片由英国制片人安东尼·托马斯,亲自解说,是他为英国电视台制作的,大概由六到七部分组成,其中一些被选入了"新星"系列科教片,被做成一小时特别节目在美国上映

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