其用意是使世卫组织逐步提高防备和预警的级别，而不使公众产生不必要的恐慌。

The intention was to allow WHO to gradually increase the level of preparedness and alert without inciting undue public alarm.

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地震使海床升高并由此引发了海啸(该词源于日语)。这次海啸来势凶猛，不费吹灰之力就将日本最好的海岸防备系统破坏殆尽。

As the quake lifted the ocean floor, it triggered a tsunami (the word is Japanese) that breached with ease some of what were considered to be Japan's best coastal defences.

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她们内心里时刻防备着别人言语中不经意对她们造成的伤害，因为这种不信任，使之怀有敌意。

In their heart at all times against the others in the words of inadvertently causing them harm, because it is of no confidence to make it hostile.

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At least since the eighteenth century, these lines have been singled out for their beauty and, considering that Milton is describing the hideous demons under Satan's control, the pastoral elegance of this little simile really catches us off guard.

至少从19世纪起，这些句子因为它们的美感经常被单列出来，并被认为是弥尔顿在描述撒旦控制下的可怕的恶魔,这个小比喻诗歌上的优雅,确实使我们毫无防备。

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