It was caused by a megathrust event as the India plate moved beneath the Burma microplate.

它是由印度板块在缅甸微板块下移动时发生的大型逆冲事件引起的。

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They also disagree about whether an impact or some other climate event caused the Younger Dryas at the end of the ice age.

他们对是否是撞击的影响还是其他的天气影响导致后冰河世纪的新仙女木事件也存在分歧。

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Yet this palaeontological paradise holds a dark secret: the mass deaths were not caused by a single event.

然而，这片古生物乐土却隐藏了一个秘密：如此大量的死亡并不是一次事件导致的。

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When you've got a view about cause and effect that works this way-- for everything that happens, there's some earlier thing that caused it to happen such that given that earlier cause, the event had to follow-- that's a deterministic picture.

当你认为因和果,是以这种方式互相作用的,对于所发生的一切,总有些事先发生,然后它们导致这些事发生,于是一旦给定了前因,这些后果必定会接着发生,这是一个决定论的图景

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That earlier study counted all kinds of PTSD, even if it was caused by some event, like being in a serious car accident, that happened before or after the veteran was in Vietnam.

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The event caused a firestorm in Tehran.

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On the other hand, when Germany's Herstatt Bank failed to meet its international payment obligations in the mid-1970s, that event caused a serious globalized payment-system crisis -- even though Herstatt itself would not have been on anyone's list of major financial institutions at the time.

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