The villagers were unaware of the beauty of the evening; they were used to it; they accepted everything, their poverty, their hunger, the dust, the squalor and the gathering clouds.

村民们没去注意傍晚的美，他们习以为常了，他们对眼前的一切默然承受——贫困、饥饿、尘土、脏乱以及天空聚集起来的云层。

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The storm clouds were gathering.

暴风雨乌云正在聚集。

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The storm clouds of revolution were gathering.

乌云滚滚，山雨欲来，革命即将爆发。

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The OECD released strategic oil reserves in response to the situation in Libya to help bring down prices temporarily, but with the exception of a fall in WTI crude prices in the U.S., oil prices have remained steady despite the gathering clouds over the economy.

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Look out into 2011, and you can see the clouds gathering.

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It figured that out in the 1930s as storm clouds were gathering in the Pacific, correctly anticipating that America might need to conduct an island-hopping campaign against entrenched Japanese forces.

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