You've got to feel sorry for the authors of those "2012 apocalypse" cash-in books, though, haven't you? Oh, wait, no, you haven't.

不过，你肯定为那些把“2012年天启”在书中写得活灵活现的作家们感到难过。

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There was no apocalypse!

根本没有天启！

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Fate will permit no apocalypse before its time, before the necessary and painful steps that have to lead up to the Last Judgment.

命运在来之前不会允许人们去启示别人，必须要自己去经历必要而又痛苦的那几步,才能走向最终的审判。

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The fact that zombie art imitates life is not lost on those fearing real world apocalypse, which explains why no one is stockpiling wooden stakes, yet shotgun shells are becoming quite scarce in many parts of the country.

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