But at the same time, the problem of flood in Ming and Qing dynasties affected the function of the towns, restricted the development and even destroyed their prosperity.

但是，这一时期严重的水患又深刻地制约着这些城镇的繁荣。它破坏了城镇的建设，削弱了城镇功能的发挥。

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If there's enough redundancy in the brain so that even if your right hemisphere got destroyed, your left hemisphere still has all the same memories.

如果大脑有足够冗余，即使你的右半球被破坏了，你的左半球仍然有相同的记忆。

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One investor commenting on the Burberry figures was reportedly outraged that the unsold goods were not even offered to investors before they were destroyed.

据报道，一位投资者对博柏利公司的数据发表评论时感到很愤怒，因为这些未售出的商品在被销毁之前甚至没有提供给投资者。

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Lincoln admitted that, even if the dispute could be settled peacefully, there were those who wanted to see the Union destroyed.

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If the soul didn't get destroyed,maybe somebody else that Shelly Kagan we weren't even looking at is Shelly Kagan.

如果灵魂没有被破坏，那么也许,某个根本不相关的人变成了。

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All of Milton's expectations that England might actually be transformed, and they were glorious expectations, into something like a Puritan utopia or even a Puritan paradise -- all of that had been destroyed.

弥尔顿壮丽的期望，将英格兰转变成一个，清教徒乌托邦，甚至是清教徒天堂的期望,统统破灭了。

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It must not be allowed to vanish into unscrupulous hands, or run the risk of being damaged or even destroyed.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Zalambessa looks like a very clean suburban town - even from the destroyed town one can not see a dirty house.

BBC: De-mining in the Horn

It will be quite a challenge: Whole villages, towns, even cities have been destroyed.

NPR: Landslides After Quake Crush Towns, Roads