Natural disasters such as the earthquake that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 have also caused reef loss.

诸如2004年触发印度洋海啸的地震这样的自然灾难也会导致珊瑚礁损失。

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Desertification is accomplished primarily through the loss of stabilizing natural vegetation and the subsequent accelerated erosion of the soil by wind and water.

起到稳定作用的自然植被不断减少，随后土壤受风雨的侵蚀加速，就成为了沙漠化的主要成因。

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The World Meteorological Organization points to Cuba and Bangladesh as examples of countries that have successfully reduced the loss of life caused by natural disasters by taking preventive action.

世界气象组织用古巴和孟加拉国做例，指出这两国通过采取预防行动成功减少自然灾害造成的生命损失。

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A miscarriage is the natural loss of a pregnancy before the twentieth week.

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You can become dehydrated and die just as a result of the loss of water there, because of your body's natural response to the infection.

就会脱水,而失水的后果就是死亡,这是你身体对于这种感染的自然反应

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And that means the loss of natural areas.

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The natural loss of population in 2010 was roughly 240, 000 while the total population was roughly 142, 000, 000.

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The natural loss in population (42, 500) was thus about 20% larger than it had been in the analogous period of 2012 (34, 900).

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This is the rate of natural population loss (as distinct from the overall total presented above), and as you can see there has been dramatic improvement.

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