They are still temporizing in the face of what can only be described as a disaster.

眼看着灾难来临，他们还在拖延时间。

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Officials also ordered more coverage of "extremely moving" stories, such as blood donations, and said the overall theme should be "great love in the face of great disaster".

官方也曾下令更多的报道极其催人泪下的故事，例如，血液捐献者，和大致主题为“在大灾难面前的爱心”的故事。

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"Yes, it’s good to be spiritual, but praying in the face of disaster will not stop the disaster," says Emmerich in an interview with Time Out magazine.

“当然，拥有宗教信仰是件好事，但在灾难面前祷告并不会阻止灾难的发生，”在一次《Time Out》的专访中艾默里奇说。

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Murphy says the original design plans were recently discovered, showing how the property was rigged with 200-kilowatt generators, massive air-intake tunnels and a custom ventilation system to be used in the face of disaster.

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Compared with the funereal pall that seemed to envelop the national psyche in April and May, when daily life was made doubly depressing by incessant, repetitive television commercials from celebrities appealing for unity and optimism in the face of disaster, as well as seemingly hourly alarms about radioactive pollution from the Fukushima nuclear plant, life seems to have returned to the patterns, and generally, concerns pre -3.11.

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