Thousands of people milled around streets littered with gutted buses, iron rods and other random objects that together formed flimsy barricades that would have done nothing to stop a tank.

成百上千的人在街道上游走，烧毁的巴士、铁棒和其他一些随性乱丢的东西遍地都是，这些乱七八糟的障碍物足以堵住一辆坦克。

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Still, there seemed to be no way to stop this iron monster. It already had destroyed two Union warships.

尽管如此，似乎没有什么可以阻挡这个铁皮怪物，它已经摧毁两艘北方战舰了，现在它又将继续却摧毁更多的北方战舰。

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If they did not stop, they could slowly move the iron box to their village.

如果他们没有停下来，他们可以慢慢地把那个铁箱子搬回他们的乡村去。

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Still,there seemed to be no way to stop this iron monster.

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On the road back to Rio, we stop underneath a spectacular old iron railway bridge - "the first curved iron bridge in the world, " Mauricio informs me, with some pride.

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That includes a pair of heavy, cast-iron bookends resembling the Brooklyn Bridge that I had to stop myself from swiping along with the soap.

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