Seismologists may not be able to forecast earthquakes precisely but it would be deplorable if they were to resign themselves to modelling just the regular, gradual movements of tectonic plates.

地震学家可能无法准确地预测地震，他们若只是将构造板块的正常而又缓慢的移动做成模型，那就可悲可叹了。

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Many food production workers labor in difficult, even deplorable, conditions, and animals are produced as if they were widgets.

许多食物生产的劳动者都处于艰难的工作环境之中，甚至很凄惨的，还有动物们就好象被割成小部分那样去制作。

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If Gorbachev forgoes a brutal crackdown in the Baltics in favor of economic, and particularly energy leverage, such coercion should be viewed by the West as equally deplorable if less bloody.

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And if it is not commendable but deplorable why Islam did not stop it in the past.

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Japan's Sports Minister Hakubun Shimomura said if true, the allegations were "deplorable".

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