Now astronomers think it was a meteor that burned up high in the atmosphere.

现在天文学家认为那是一颗在高空燃烧的流星。

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We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever increasing rate.

我们需要以越来越快的速度消耗、燃烧、磨损、替换和丢弃东西。

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The fire burned up 1 500 acres of farmland.

大火烧掉了1 500英亩农田。

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In Griffith, a town near Narrandera, militant farmers burned piled-up copies of the water-use plan, which would affect an area of 2m people that provides about 40% of the output from Australia's farms.

ECONOMIST: Australia's water war

The city floated the burned-out husks up here 120 years ago and just left them.

FORBES: A most unromantic river

Today, boarded-up houses, graffiti, burned-out cars and a huge crime and anti-social behaviour problem have been replaced with sport's centres and libraries youth clubs.

BBC: Taking Back the Streets