During the cold war, when nuclear tensions were at their height, rampaging B-movie monsters were the result of accidental exposure to radiation; nowadays plague seems a greater threat to humanity.

在核问题高度紧张的冷战期间，肆意猖狂的次级电影怪物是由于意外遭受核辐射而产生的；而如今似乎瘟疫对人类的威胁更大。

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There were the churches—Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian—facing each other at the intersection of Second and Elm like wary sentries, their steeples competing for height.

浸礼会教堂、卫理公会教堂和长老会教堂，在第二大道和榆树大道的交叉口，它们像机警的哨兵一样面对面地矗立着，教堂的尖塔争相往高处伸。

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When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950's, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.

在20世纪50年代末汽车影院最受欢迎的时候，美国大约有4000家汽车影院，但如今，这个数字还不到当时的四分之一。

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The rebels began their guerilla campaign for a separate Tamil homeland in 1983, and at the height of their power they controlled vast swathes of territory.

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At their height, these firms and their founders were as likely to be covered in the fashion and lifestyle sections as on the business pages.

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As Caritas noted this week, even in 2008, when Mediterranean crossings were at their height, entries by sea into Italy anyway made up only a fifth of the estimated total.

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Of course, there are good reasons why the markets' fears of price swings in general might be smaller now than in late 2002, when, among other things, fears about the fragility of corporate America were at their height.

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