This was a slightly ironic word to describe some tragic situations.

这是对一些悲剧性的遭遇的一种反讽说法。

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Billy: I have got some tragic news for you, Michael. I can't come fishing with you today.

比利：我有一些不好的消息要告诉你，迈克尔。今天我不能和你们去钓鱼。

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If you have lost a leg or arm in some tragic accident, nothing I can teach you is going to grow it back.

好比你经历了事故，失去了手脚，我绝不会让你期待它们会重生，因为悲剧已无法挽回。

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And in some cases the counterfeits cause tragic problems of their own.

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She didn't hear the original command. Or did she just mishear in some very tragic version of the telephone game.

但是夏娃并没有亲耳听到上帝的命令,也许她从电话恶作剧中，听到了另一个版本。

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And NATO has rightly taken care to avoid civilian targets, though some tragic mistakes have inevitably been made.

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There are many reasons why a human being would allow harm to themselves to occur, some of them tragic and some of them rather noble.

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"We've had some very tragic cases and it's because we hadn't taken enough notice that we have re-evaluated how we do business here, " said Chief Landsdowne .

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