"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

It's at this point that Milton chose for the subject of his epic poem the subject of the tragedy that he'd been contemplating for so many years.

弥尔顿在这个时候决定用他多年来都在构思的,悲剧的主题作为他的史诗的主题。

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

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

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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Survivors of the tragedy and activists fear that such an appeal is again likely to get entangled in India's slow moving judicial system.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

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

"The Gulf spill is a tragedy that never should have happened." In the battle to win hearts and minds, BP's newest ad, appears to be winning few converts.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

From the tragedy in Moscow's subway, to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the explosions in London's public transit system the following year, experts say no country is immune to terrorism.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Tragedy also marked the past year in U.S.sports,as 22-year-old Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart died in a car crash April 9, just hours after he threw six scoreless innings against the Oakland A's.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24