It is not quite the eye-stinging, throat-burning, aviation-disrupting peasouper seen in 1997, but still the town of Dumai recorded a surge in acute respiratory illnesses in June and July.

虽然不像1997年的浓雾那样刺眼、灼喉、迫使航空中断，但杜迈（Dumai）急性呼吸道疾病在7、8月出现了激增。

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No such thing as the burning of the school house has ever before occurred in our town.

学校失火的这种事在我们镇上还从没发生过。

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"Driving away, you could see the town burning up, " she told the Los Angeles Times.

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