News of the accident overshadowed the day's events.

出事的消息给这一天的活动蒙上了阴影。

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British Petroleum's drilling accident in the Gulf of Mexico this past April is the latest of several recent disastrous events for which the country, or the world, was unprepared.

已经过去的六月中，英国石油公司在墨西哥湾发生的钻探事故是最近令我国乃至世界都措手不及的灾难事件之一。

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Step forward those of you who don't think that, barring some major accident or a coincidence of strange events, we're coming back from South Africa with the Cup under our arm.

除非有发生什么不可抗的重大事故或灵异事件，你还觉得我们不能从南非带回大力神杯的，请你站出来。

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"Although triggered by these cataclysmic events, the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster, " it said.

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Yet here, too, personal and political interact: Herzen must struggle to rescue his ideals from the wreckage of events in the same year as an accident at sea drowns his wife and son.

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The statement also criticised the computer reconstruction of the accident, saying it did not provide "a true, complete reconstruction of events".

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