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But oil spills of the sort that now threaten the Timor Sea, forest fires like those that recently afflicted Greece, and other man-made and man-assisted threats to wildlife are transient.

但是如今威胁着帝汶海的石油泄漏、最近侵袭希腊的山火以及其它这类人为或者人力助长的对自然的威胁却都是转瞬即逝。

Afterward he came around into Palestine, then wandered on into Europe, and at last when his money was all spent and he was in rags, wretchedness, and poverty, he stood on the shore of that bay at Barcelona, in Spain, when a great tidal wave came rolling in between the pillars of Hercules, and the poor, afflicted, suffering, dying man could not resist the awful temptation to cast himself into that incoming tide, and he sank beneath its foaming crest, never to rise in this life again.

后来他进入巴勒斯坦，又流浪着进入欧洲，最后把所有钱花光，变得衣衫褴褛，穷困潦倒；他站在西班牙巴塞罗纳海湾岸边，忽然一股巨浪卷入&赫拉克勒斯墩&中间，这个贫穷痛苦、备受折磨、奄奄一息的人抵挡不住那极大诱惑，纵身跳入卷来的浪潮中，沉入泛泡的浪头下，从此再没起来。

So it was last week in Selma , alabama.

上星期在亚拉巴马州塞尔马市发生的事件也是这样一个转折点。

The group also spearheads various social programs in China.

该组织还带头参与中国的各种社会活动。