"With more stable infrastructure, once it's rebuilt, with a more robust health system, there's an opportunity to not only deal with the immediate tragedy of the earthquake, but hopefully, some of the longer-term crises that Haitians have experienced day in and day out."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

And it's not occured to me society advancement is always a tragedy.

我不认为社会发展会,一直是个悲剧。

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So, it's a real tragedy that the world had lost that.

所以，这个世界失去了那段影像真是一个悲剧。

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A tragedy of unprecedented proportion is unfolding in Africa, Professor Coovadia said Mandel's words affected him personally.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

Carolyn Maloney's own tragedy struck last September, when she learned that her husband of 31 years had died on a mountain trail, during an expedition to the Himalayas.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07