The sudden plunging of a train into the darkness of a tunnel, and the equally sudden rush into full daylight, would cause great damage to eyesight.

火车突然冲进黑暗的隧道或突然冲出光明，都会对视力造成极大的损害。

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Plantings of cotton bioengineered to produce its own insecticide against bollworms, a major cause of crop failure, sustained little bollworm damage until this year.

经过生物工程改造的棉花种植场可以生产自己的抗棉铃虫杀虫剂，而棉铃虫是造成农作物歉收的主要原因，直到今年，棉铃虫的危害都很小。

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Now let's focus on a specific example of a natural predator that can cause a lot of damage to coral reefs—the Crown of Thorns, or CoT starfish.

现在，让我们来看一个自然捕食者的具体例子，它会对珊瑚礁造成很大的伤害——那就是刺冠海星。

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Acetaminophen overdose is a leading cause of liver damage in the United States.

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Other kinds of microorganisms reproduce and cause tissue damage in a different way.

其他种类微生物的繁殖,也可以以其他形式引起组织的损害

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Now, a virus is not capable of reproducing on its own, so if you got a virus into your body somehow and it didn't enter any of your cells, it would cause no damage because it could not reproduce.

病毒自身并不能繁殖,所以如果你的身体感染了病毒,而病毒没有进入细胞的话,因其不能繁殖所以不会对身体造成伤害

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"We want the ICC to put in place a code for former players and officials who tend to cause a lot of damage by making match-fixing allegations against a team without evidence, " he added.

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On its own, the hurricane could cause a lot of damage.

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"These are very high-force, high-impact injuries so they cause a lot of damage to tissue and to bone, " said Ron Walls, chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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