The picturesque town was a popular tourist destination, but the majority of its buildings were crushed by the onslaught of an unprecedented firestorm that advanced with such speed and ferocity and gave many residents little chance of survival.

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He is abject. He is a shining example of moral leprosy, a mixture of ferocity and jocularity that betrays supreme misery, perhaps, but is not conducive to attractiveness.

他很卑鄙，他是道德败坏的典型，他是凶残和,滑稽的结合体，背叛了至高的痛苦，但也并不吸引人。

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"The ferocity of this spectacle," Machiavelli concludes, " "left the people at once satisfied and stupefied."

马奇亚维利总结“,“这个残暴场面，让人们立即感到满足与失觉“

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