No other known famine has been so devastating.

其他任何已知的饥荒都不曾如此具有破坏性。

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THERE had been stockmarket crashes before, but never one so widely felt and so devastating.

证券市场崩溃在以前也时有发生，但是这次的影响之广、破坏力之强却是前所未见的。

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It just struck me as just so devastating and just how can you focus on school and how can you even think about homework when those are the circumstances that you're living in?

这让我感到十分震惊，当你居住在那种环境下时，怎么能够集中精力在学习上？甚至怎么能够思考你的课后作业？

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(OMITTED) He says earthquakes are natural events, but if homes were built properly, the L'Aquila quake would not have been so devastating.

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So this sort of structural repetition creates a crescendo that leads then to the finaland most devastating plague which is the slaughter of the Egyptian firstborn sons.

所以这种结构上的反复，创造了一种渐渐加强的效果,最终到了最后一个，也是最具毁灭性的瘟疫,对埃及人长子的屠杀。

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So it will be devastating for a very long time.

所以那会让人难过很久。

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The first round of cuts under Gramm-Rudman weren't so devastating that Congress and the president rushed to repeal them.

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That explains why the current credit crunch -- lending has shrunk every quarter over the past three years -- is so devastating.

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Kevin Caron: In many respects it is fairly easy because if you think about the financial crisis which was so devastating to so many individual investors, one of the things that stands as a commonality among all of the most significant losses were the companies that had the very characteristics that we try to avoid.

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