Much of the damage to the city's structures resultedfrom typhoon-fueled firestorms that raged in the wake of the disaster.

紧随这场灾难而来的由台风助燃的风暴性大火肆虐，导致这座城市大部分建筑的毁灭。

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If an asteroid that big struck Earth, firestorms could produce worldwide clouds of soot that would block sunlight and plunge the planet into an “asteroid winter.”

如果那么大的小行星袭击地球，引发的大火产生的烟尘会弥漫全球，遮蔽阳光，使地球进入“小行星冬天”。

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Along the way, we came across a couple of media firestorms--an idea that if women were unhappy, well, feminism was to blame.

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Since no dinosaur fossils have ever been found in sediments dating from after this point, conventional wisdom has it that the largest creatures ever to roam the earth must have been cut down in their prime - victims of an asteroid impact that sparked firestorms, acid rain and a nuclear winter that blotted out the sun.

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