The combination of how close it was to the coast and how shallow it was made it a "perfect storm for the tsunami generation," said Susan Hough of the U. S. Geological Survey in Pasadena.

震中距离海岸线较近以及地震中心较浅给“海啸的产生提供了一个完美风暴，”帕萨迪纳市地质调查局的苏珊•浩福说。

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And it is in the public schools that we find the full expression of society 's understanding-the knowledge, hopes, and fears that are passed on to the next generation.

正是在公立学校里我们感受到了社会知性的充分体现——传授给下一代的知识、希望和恐惧。

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It has always been the special prerogative of young people to look and act weird and shock grown-ups. But my generation exhausted the Earth \ 's resources of the weird.

我们这代人破坏了你们的一切，本来装扮的奇形怪状、行事古怪离奇是年轻人的特权，但是我们这代人耗尽了地球上稀奇古怪的形式，我们穿稀奇古怪的衣服，蓄稀奇古怪的胡须，说稀奇古怪的话。

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The generation gap in our country is so huge that it's hard to make a compromise."

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I think it's also the struggle of a generation trying to enrich the public square with positive conversation about religion.

我认为这也是我们这一代人的努力,我们试图通过积极地谈论宗教,来丰富社会生活。

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But nevertheless, let's just go with this for a minute, and if we suppose that it took about a generation to enter the land so you see, I've done the math on the side here.

无论如何，我们还是要稍微讨论一下，假设，进入这块土地要一代人的努力,你看，我已经在这边做了算术。

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The 65-year-old said it's not his generation group to blame, it's Congress'.

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We hoped to drop by the outfit's CES booth to see if it's upcoming Vita Power Grip could do for Sony's next generation portable as it did for Nintendo's 3DS, but we were told that the grip wasn't quite ready for prime-time.

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"Let's be honest, I think it's the younger generation who like the idea of a vertical pier and the not-so-young generation who like the idea of a traditional pier, " Mr Dunning said.

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