The human ability to control fire would have brought a semblance of day to night, helping our ancestors to see in an otherwise dark world and keep nocturnal predators at bay.

人类控制火种的能力，黑夜看上去和就白天差不多了，这有助于人类祖先在黑暗世界里也能看到并且捕获夜间食肉动物。

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It took two hours to bring the fire under control.

花了两个小时才控制住火势。

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The fire is burning out of control.

火势失控。

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That fire is now 80 percent contained. The Los Angeles blaze is still largely out of control.

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It includes leaving a fire unattended, being unable to control a fire or having not made provision for its proper control.

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Roscosmos engineers have been working furiously to regain communication with the probe so they can regain control and fire the boosters.

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Mr Gleave said there was no way the men could control the fire and therefore "there is no way the offenders could have known what was going to happen".

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