可怕的事实慢慢地清晰起来。

Slowly the awful truth dawned.

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联合国教科文组织认为这是一个可怕的事实。

UNESCO sees this as a terrible fact.

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评级机构正匆忙地应付这个可怕的事实。

The rating agencies are rushing to catch up with this grim reality.

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He won't listen;he bowls ahead, and he discovers in the process the terrible,terrible truth, which is that by accident,by coincidence, not by intent that as a young man he killed his father and subsequently married his mother.

他充耳不闻,执迷不悟,随后他在不经意间,发现了极其可怕的事实,或是因为事故,或是因为巧合,总之绝不是故意的,他年少时曾经弑父,随即娶了自己的母亲

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