幸运的是，在1972年，通过了一项禁止使用 DDT 的法律，使秃鹰免遭灭顶之灾。
Fortunately, in 1972, a law was passed to ban DDT, which saved the bald eagle from total wipeout.
在20世纪，先是电影，然后是收音机，再然后是电视机，似乎都给书面世界带来了灭顶之灾。
In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to spell doom for the written world.
但过分的梦想能使人灭顶下沉。
森林要遭灭顶之灾的传闻已是危言耸听了。
News of the death of forests appears to have been greatly exaggerated.
叛军即将面临灭顶之灾。
欧洲最大的汽车集团也许面临着的是灭顶之灾。
英航意在挽救商务旅行业务，使其免遭灭顶之灾。
成千上万的种族希腊人在爱奥尼亚海岸遭到灭顶之灾。
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Greeks were uprooted from Ionian coastal areas.
严重的衰退不可避免，但还没有酿成本地区的灭顶之灾。
A very nasty recession is inevitable, but regional catastrophe is not.
冰岛的银行家们同心协力，给他们的国家带来了灭顶之灾。
Iceland's bankers have effectively brought their entire country to ruin.
然而不管是哪种方法，对病人及其家庭来讲，都是灭顶之灾。
But both ways mean catastrophe to the patient and his family.
这种方法也许还会用到采取灭顶法时安装的设备来抽取石油。
It may also use equipment installed for the top kill to drain off oil.
当灭顶灾难降临，大地被悲伤覆盖，他们却用坚强和微笑，震撼我们。
When Mieding disaster fell, the land covered by grief, they used a strong and smiling, shook us.
而正如《经济达人》指出的，英国石油公司也只是说，“灭顶法”仍在进行中。
As The Economist went to press, BP was saying only that the top kill was still under way.
无法控制的山火燃遍俄罗斯的欧洲区，更使农民雪上加霜，田地面临灭顶之灾。
An uncontrollable wave of wildfires sweeping across European Russia is adding to farmers' woes, threatening their land with destruction.
这种“灭顶法”是一种为了封闭油井，阻止油漏而将足够的重液打入管道的方法。
This "top kill" was meant to get enough mud into the pipes to seal the well and stop the flow of oil.
上周，英国石油公司的‘灭顶计划’即，通过向井填泥土来堵漏的计划宣告失败。
Last week it failed in its attempt to close the well with a “top kill” that filled it with mud.
今天我将采访伟大的以斯帖王后，她是救犹大本族同宗同胞免于灭顶杀戳的英雄。
Today I interviewed the great Queen Esther, who saved her people from a untimely death.
任何政客，只要他们预示能源价格会涨上去，就算是用心良好，面临的也是灭顶之灾。
Any politician who promises ever-rising energy prices, even in a good cause, faces obliteration.
其中大部分地区要是出了问题，也就是说降雨延迟几周或是一个月，那将意味着一场灭顶之灾。
Most of these are of course the crops which anything can go wrong, a few weeks or four weeks of delay of rainfall would mean a complete debacle.
更可怕的是，如果为了开辟新的农田而继续分批次地滥砍乱伐，全球气候变暖就将以灭顶之势加速。
What is more, if we continue wholesale deforestation just to generate new farmland, global warming will accelerate at an even more catastrophic rate.
威尔士先生称，一旦控制板已经重新被安装在防喷阀上，管汇连接在Q 4000后，就要实施灭顶法了。
Mr Wells says that once the control pod has been reinstalled on the blowout preventer and the manifold is attached to the Q4000, the top kill could start.
5月29日英国石油公司试图用“灭顶法”封堵泄露失败的消息不胫而走，其股价迎来了最近一次的下跌。
The latest drop was prompted by the news on May 29th that BP's attempt to plug the leak with a "top kill" had failed.
我们意识到他们一定是被不断上涨的洪水吓坏了。因为他们的房子地基牢固，即使洪水几乎灭顶也不会倒塌。
We realized that they must have become unduly frightened by the rising flood, for their house, which had sound foundations, would have stood stoutly even if it had been almost submerged.
这家石油公司在“灭顶法”和“吸油管法”失败后，下一步计划是一个新版本的“圆顶”——“防漏罩法”。
The oil company next plans to try a new version of the containment dome that failed to work before the top kill and "junk shot" efforts failed to work.
萨摩亚气象官员说明，部分罹难者因第二波海浪卷上岸而灭顶丧生，当时他们正在捡拾遭第一波海浪冲走的鱼群。
Samoan meteorological officials suggest that some victims were killed by a second wave that swept ashore as they gathered fish washed up by the first.
萨摩亚气象官员说明，部分罹难者因第二波海浪卷上岸而灭顶丧生，当时他们正在捡拾遭第一波海浪冲走的鱼群。
Samoan meteorological officials suggest that some victims were killed by a second wave that swept ashore as they gathered fish washed up by the first.
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