Tens of millions of the people who live downstream of the dam would be endangered by overflow, or worse yet, the one-in-one-thousand chance of a dam collapse due to war, earthquake or design flaws.

下游数千万的居民就会生活在过分泄洪的危险之中，假如有那么千分之一的几率，大坝由于战争，地震或者设计缺陷而溃坝，他们的处境就会变得更加危险。

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Their loss was partly due to a vicious price war between manufacturers that has cut margins to the bone.

他们的亏损部分是因为制造商之间把利润空间削减到了极点的一场恶性价格战。

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Once impotent due to Cold War rivalries, it has regained much of the authority accorded by the UN charter.

它曾经由于冷战对立而无能为力，现已重获《联合国宪章》赋予的大部分权力。

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Bill Campbell,an Iraq war veteran with a 100 percent disability due to concussive brain injury, received a beautiful yellow Labrador called Pax.

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Afghans have been the world's single largest group of refugees for 19 years in row, due to war, famine, drought and political repression, according to the UNHCR.

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He pointed out how violations of the truce were extremely rare in ancient times, whereas in recent years the games have been cancelled three times due to war.

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She said that it included a tribute to the Guild of 1942, which was cancelled due to World War II.

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