That water baptism sounded mighty good.

用水洗礼听起来还不错。

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A mighty beast rises out of the water, ready to pounce on some unsuspecting prey.

一头凶猛的怪兽破水而出，并随时准备给毫不设防的猎物致命一击。

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Of the 17,666 people who once lived here, over 300 have been confirmed dead and thousands more have disappeared - still buried in the ruins or sucked out to sea as the mighty wall of water receded.

17666人曾经居住在这里，超过三百人已经确认死亡，数以千计的人失踪，他们仍然被埋在废墟中或者当巨大的海浪退回时，被海水卷走。

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The Aswan high dam, for example, is often cited as a cautionary example, a quixotic construction that now reduces the mighty Nile to a dribble before it trickles to the sea, leaving behind an explosion of water hyacinth, outbreaks of bilharzia, polluted irrigation channels and a build-up of sediment inland that would otherwise compensate for coastal erosion from Egypt to Lebanon.

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