There was a flash of lightning and the house was plunged into darkness.

雷电闪过，房子陷入一片黑暗之中。

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A sudden flash of lightning lit everything up for a second.

突然的一道闪电刹那间把一切照亮了。

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Suddenly a bolt of lightning crackled through the sky.

突然，一道闪电划破天空。

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A series of blazes, many sparked by lightning strikes or by suspected arsonists, killed more than 170 people.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

He smiles at the television cameras, sticks out his tongue with antic poses and hand gestures, strikes his "lightning bolt" pose, and tells reporters that he is on his way "to being a legend."

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

But knowing that trust has become precious and the ability to deliver it, as Mark Twain once said, is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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The difference is, as Mark Twain once put it, like that between lightning and a lightning bug: Team Obama has unmistakably capitulated at the geo-strategic level and no amount of obfuscations about revised intelligence or "stronger, smarter and swifter" missile defense architectures will conceal that fact.

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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said a tree struck by lightning about a week ago sparked the mammoth blaze in his state.

CNN: June 18, 2012 -- Updated 0014 GMT (0814 HKT)