Ingham claimed that a GM version of a common soil bacterium could spread and destroy plants if released into the wild.

英格汉姆声称，一种普通土壤细菌的转基因版本如果被释放到野外，可能会传播并摧毁植物。

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Even a vastly more ecoefficient industrial system could, were it to grow much larger, generate more total waste and destroy more habitat and species than would a smaller, less ecoefficient economy.

即使是一个生态效率高得多的工业系统，如果它发展得更大，也会比更小、更不生态效率的经济产生更多的垃圾，破坏更多的栖息地和物种。

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The Pandemic will take lives, strangle economies and destroy routines, but it will pass.

大流行病将夺去生命、扼杀经济、打破常规，但它终将会过去。

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Land development and agriculture are just two uses of natural resources that change and destroy environments that birds need.

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Al-Qaeda makes the statement: how can my identity dominate and destroy your identity?

基地组织声称：,如何能使我的身份支配并摧毁你的身份？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

What are the kinds of things that you can change and destroy?

哪些东西,你能改变并摧毁？

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Undeterred, Flamsteed managed to retrieve 300 of the 400 copies printed and destroy them.

BBC: A Point of View: Crowd-sourcing comets

Pruitt wants the Justice Department to return the phone records and destroy any copies.

CNN: Obama won't let media do their job

And then when the thing goes bad, they tear them up and destroy them.

NPR: Roundtable: Rice Takes Heat, Graduation Gap