Stories of tsunami-leveled villages gave way to harrowing accounts of nuclear engineers trying, and failing, to stop the meltdown of first one, then a second, and finally a third reactor at Fukushima.

人们关注不到被海啸夷为平地的村庄，大家都盯着那些核能工程师为努力尝试关闭福岛的三个核反应堆而做出的悲壮事迹。

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My first few days were harrowing to say the least.

我的头几天是痛苦的，至少可以说。

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It was harrowing viewing for New Zealand coach Mark Greatbatch as his side lost their last six first-innings wickets in just 12.1 overs at the start of play.

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Her moment of epiphany came when she first met the Masudis, a Congolese family in rural New South Wales, and listened to their harrowing testimony.

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