Tens of millions of the people who live downstream of the dam would be endangered by overflow, or worse yet, the one-in-one-thousand chance of a dam collapse due to war, earthquake or design flaws.

下游数千万的居民就会生活在过分泄洪的危险之中，假如有那么千分之一的几率，大坝由于战争，地震或者设计缺陷而溃坝，他们的处境就会变得更加危险。

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Her column appeared in the Chicago Tribune and about one thousand two hundred other newspapers around the world. Her advice reached tens of millions of people every day.

她的专栏出现在《芝加哥论坛》和全世界1200多家报纸上，她的建议每天传达给数千万人。

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It is unclear how many people blog for pay, but there are surely several thousand and maybe even tens of thousands.

目前还不清楚有多少人为赚钱而做博客，但是可以肯定的是这个数量达到几千，甚至上万。

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At the FDA they can and do insist that the new treatment be tried out of a few thousand, a few tens of thousands, of people and then we look at how many die from the treatment and how many are made better from it.

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