My favorite example of this was a few years ago when there was a huge battle for the House majority leader.

我最喜欢的例子，几年前,白宫多数党领袖有一场大的争斗。

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In The Epic of Gilgamesh we have no motive given for the divine destruction whatsoever. It just seems to be pure capriciousness.

在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，并没有引起这场大灾难的原因,似乎就像是一场自然灾难。

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They shared fun with firecrackers, which was a disastrous thing which nearly brought the experiment to an end.

让他们一起玩烟花，结果变成一场大灾难,差点害得连实验都做不下去了。

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Or,in the 1980s,when there were huge demonstrations by people favoring the Catholic Church it was the same thing, with reacting against the kind of dictates or dictates coming down from Paris.

在1980年有一场大游行,为了支持天主教会,这些都是一样的,是为了反抗,来自巴黎的指示和规定

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It's a story of catastrophes.

这是关于一场大灾难的故事。

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The great war of attrition in Virginia.

当时在弗吉尼亚还有一场大持久战

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You may know that there are big fights being waged around the country now between governments that want restaurants to put calories on their labels -not on labels but on the restaurant menus, or on the menu boards in the restaurant, and the restaurant industry doesn't want this at all.

你们或许知道在政府与餐饮业间,正在进行一场大争斗,政府要求餐馆将食物的热量值写在标签上,不是标签而是餐馆菜单或菜单板上,而餐饮业很不愿意这样做

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What better way to drive home the point that inhumanity and violence undermine the very foundations of society than to describe a situation in which a cosmic catastrophe results from human corruption and violence.

我们应该铭记在心的一点是,任何非人道的行为都会侵蚀人类社会存在的根基,而不是简单的描述一个人类因其堕落和血腥,招致的一场大灾难的场景。

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