The media have been filled with tales of horror and loss resulting from Monday's earthquake.

媒体上已充斥着对星期一地震造成的恐怖和损失的种种描述。

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Would research of stem cells usher in an era often shown in future science fiction morality tales of horror, a world of human clones?

它们经常毫无理由地被破坏，决不会有其它用途，亦或被赋予生长的机会，肝细胞研究会把我们引入恐怖科幻故事时常发生的年代-克隆人时代吗？

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The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

病人的腿被锯错了或是膝盖替换错了的这类偶发的恐怖故事总是占据大多数的头条新闻，还有病人的身份被完全弄混了的故事。

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All those interviewed have tales of horror.

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Thus did rabies embody the two dark themes fatal disease and carnal abandon that underlay the burgeoning tradition of English horror tales.

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Increasingly, however, more of those stories are becoming horror tales about a system in chaos with banks pushing people toward foreclosure, sometimes, allegedly, based on error-filled or even fraudulent and illegal documents.

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