in the great leap movement trees were cut to temper steel, which had destroyed the ecology. then a serious drought happened in 1959 when forty or fifty thousand people starved to death.
大跃进把树都砍了去炼钢铁,把生态破坏了,一九五九年大干旱,一年基本上没有收成,饿死了四五千万人。
at its peak, fifty thousand people had lived there, but now only a fraction of the population was left.
鼎盛时期,有五万人居住在这里,但是现在的人口连个零头都不到。
experts say two hundred fifty thousand people died in europe in that flu pandemic.
专家说欧洲在该次流感暴发中死了25万人。
that included parts of new york city where mayor michael bloomberg ordered over two hundred fifty thousand people to evacuate.
包括纽约市部分地区。市长迈克尔?彭博(michaelbloomberg)下令25万人撤离。
i「m going onto that rig to give them the names of fifty thousand people who」ve emailed them to demand they publish their plan, and i won't leave until i have it in my hands.
我要登上那座鉆井平台,将已经向他们发去电子邮件,要求他们公布计划书的5万人的姓名递交给他们。而且除非亲手拿到计划书,我决不离开。