Neglect, dilapidation, storm and fire have gradually reduced it to a rusting hulk, like the rib-cage of a whale.

失修、荒废、风暴和火灾使它逐渐沦为生锈的废船，就像鲸鱼的胸腔。

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A Harvard anthropologist has proposed that using fire to cook food could be dated back to almost two million years and that it could explain hominid features like having a large brain and small teeth.

哈佛大学的一位人类学家提出，用火做饭可以追溯到近200万年前，这可以解释人类的一些特征，比如大脑大，牙齿小。

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But he added that they must use the money to support services like police, fire, education and health care.

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The speech of Saint Peter seems, I think, in a lot of ways to be a lot more like a fire and brimstone sermon than it is a passage in a pastoral poem.

我认为圣彼得的演说，在很多方面似乎很像是一场关于炼狱磨难的布道,而不是田园诗中的一段。

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and getting back to balancing the elements in our lives, very basically like Earth, water, fire.

回归生命中元素的平衡，基本上就是土、水、火。

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He said: " I like being able to fire people who provide services to me".

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That must hurt like fire to have one took off there.

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That would be like allowing fire insurers to cut off coverage for houses once they catch on fire.

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