The news that an earthquake hit the country and killed tens of thousands of people gave everyone a shock.

一场地震袭击了该国，并夺去了数万人的生命，这则新闻让所有人感到震惊。

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By 2003, record Numbers of cyclones, hurricanes, heatwaves, droughts, fires, whirlwinds and floods killed tens of thousands of people.

至2003年，创记录的台风飓风、热浪、干旱、火灾、旋风和洪灾夺去了千百万人的生命。

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His country is as impoverished as ever, with some analysts warning of a return to the famine conditions that killed tens of thousands of the dictator's subjects in the late 1990s.

他治下的国家贫困如昔，有些分析学者认为他的国家有回到九十年代末期曾经导致千万人死亡的饥荒中的危险，并发出了这样的警告。

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Vlad the Impaler was said to have killed tens of thousands of people, including invading members of the Ottoman Empire.

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Nearly three hundred people were killed and tens of thousands lost their homes.

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Hundreds of MDC supporters have been killed and tens of thousands injured since the MDC fought its first election in 2000.

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The tsunami swept away entire towns and killed tens of thousands of people.

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It's been nearly five years since Eritrea and Ethiopia called a truce to a border war that killed tens of thousands of people.

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Guatemala's first Pentecostal president, Efrain Rios Montt, killed tens of thousands of Mayans (and enjoyed the support of American Pentecostals such as Pat Robertson).

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