在800公里长海岸线的沿线地区，建筑物被横扫一空，没有任何生命的迹象，共有 16.7万人死亡或失踪。 在这种情况下，重建任务似乎很艰巨，而且确实也很艰巨。

With 167,000 dead or missing along an 800 kilometer strip of coastline that had been swept clean of buildings and all signs of life, the task of rebuilding seemed, and was, overwhelming.

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在这个居住着无数人的丑陋的、功利的苏维埃式建筑物里，有一种病态的妖娆在恣意生长。

There is a morbid beauty in these ugly, utilitarian Soviet-era buildings, housing their hordes of anonymous citizens.

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持枪歹徒把两个孩子扣押在这座建筑物里当作人质。

The gunman is holding two children hostage in the building.

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