The sky is as black as coal. Thundershowers will be coming immediately.

天空像煤炭一样黑，雷雨就要来了。

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This will build Australia's biggest coal mine, as well as a 490km (300-mile) railway to carry the black stuff to the coast, and thence to China's ravenous industrial maw.

这里不仅将铺设490千米（300英里）长的铁路，该铁路将黑色的原料输送港口来满足中国工业对能源极度的需求，而且也将在这里建设澳大利亚最大的煤矿。

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Martin McGuinn, who took over as chief executive two years ago, is a lawyer by training and oblivious to banker's hours: He's gazing over Pittsburgh from his top-floor office by 5:30 every morning, when the three sprawling rivers below are still black as the coal buried deep in the surrounding hills.

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While the US has turned to shale gas, Europeans have once again embraced the black stuff, as the cost of coal has plummeted.

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Located next to the convention center, the stadium would have doubled the mass and length of the huge bunker against the river already established by that "lump of black coal" -- as essayist Phillip Lopate described its dark bulk in his literary trip around the edges of Manhattan -- cutting off views and access with nearly a mile of hulking wall.

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