日本大部分海岸沿线都修建了水泥防波堤，但这些措施被证明无法抵御如此强烈的地震和海啸。
There are also concrete sea walls around much of the Japanese coastline. But these measures proved no match for the powerful earthquake and tsunami.
1960年，户田公明(Kimiaki Toda)还是个孩子，当看到自己村子的防波堤挡住了太平洋彼岸的智利地震所引发的海啸时，他的内心充满了敬佩。
When Kimiaki Toda was a child, he watched with admiration as his village's sea wall turned back a tsunami triggered on the other side of the Pacific by the 1960 earthquake in Chile.
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