On August 8th a storm smashed through the protecting wall of a paraxylene (PX) factory in the city.

8月8日，一场暴风雨粉碎了该城市一家对二甲苯(PX)工厂的保护墙。

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Roughly half an hour later, however, a wall of water breached the sea wall protecting the Fukushima Daiichi plant - one of the closest to the epicentre - and struck the main back-up generators.

然而，大约在半小时之后，巨浪冲垮了距震中最近的福岛第一核电站的海堤，并摧毁了主要的备用发电机。

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And it's this wall which is why the current city of London exists, for though the Romans came and the Romans went and kingdoms rose and kingdoms fell, the wall endured protecting the city within.

正是这座城墙使伦敦城得以保存至今，尽管罗马人来来去去，众多的王国兴起覆灭，但城墙保存了下来，把这个城市里的一切保护好。

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In a statement, the Countryside Agency said it took protecting the wall very seriously and there were "robust" systems in place to monitor and manage the trail.

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He said that the 12-foot wall protecting their high-voltage wires was two feet short of the floodwaters.

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"The first several layers of the skin are like a castle wall protecting the athlete from outside marauders, " Adams says.

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