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| At 3.32 a.m., the time the deadly quake struck last April 6, a requiem was played in L'Aquila's central Piazza Duomo. |
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凌晨3:32，去年4 月6 日致命地震袭击的时刻，拉奎拉中部比萨大教堂演奏了安魂曲， |
| The names of all 308 victims were read aloud. No one in the town has been able to forget the tragedy. |
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并大声诵读了所有308 名遇难者的名字。这座小镇的每一个人都难以忘却这场灾难。 |
| Sergio Bianchi lost his 22-year-old son, Nicola. |
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Sergio Bianchi 在地震中失去了22 岁的儿子Nicola。 |
| "It's difficult," he says. "There's lots of anger, discouragement and solitude." |
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“非常困难，”他表示。“我们面临着许多愤怒，挫折和孤独。” |
| Residents were asleep in their beds when the 6.3 magnitude quake struck. |
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6.3 级的地震袭击时，人们正在床上熟睡。 |
| People fled their homes in L'Aquila and in more than 40 surrounding towns and villages. |
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拉奎拉和周围40 多个城镇和村庄的人们迅速逃离家门。 |
| Many were unable to get out fast enough. Thousands of buildings were reduced to rubble, including centuries old churches. |
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许多人没能迅速离开。数千座建筑成为废墟，包括拥有几个世纪历史的教堂。 |
| Survivor Sergio Bianchi says poor construction heightened the death toll. |
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幸存者Sergio Bianchi 表示，建筑质量差导致死亡数字上升。 |
| He says earthquakes are natural events, but if homes were built properly, |
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他说，地震是自然灾害。但是如果房屋的建筑质量足够好， |
| the L'Aquila quake would not have been so devastating. |
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拉奎拉地震导致的破坏程度不会这么大。 |
| Most of downtown L'Aquila is still off-limits, as is the historic districts of most surrounding towns. |
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拉奎拉城区大部分地区仍然禁止入内，大部分周边城镇拥有历史意义的地区也是如此。 |
| Although tent cities have disappeared, tens of thousands of people still are living in some form of temporary housing. |
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尽管帐篷区已经消失，千百万人仍然居住在一些临时住房中。 |
| The head of Italy's civil defense department, Guido Bertolaso, says much has been done over the past 12 months. |
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意大利民防部门负责人Guido Bertolaso 表示，过去的12 个月，已经进行了很多工作。 |
| He says students have been able to return to school and new homes have been built for tens of thousands of people. |
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他说，学生们得以重返校园，并为千百万人建造了新的房屋。 |
| Joshua Lawrence used to live in L'Aquila. His house was severely damaged by the quake. |
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Joshua Lawrence 以前在拉奎拉居住。他的房屋在地震中严重受损。 |
| He and his family are now renting an apartment in Pescara, Abruzzo's – a modern city on Italy's Adriatic coast. |
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他和家人现在租住在佩斯卡拉一座公寓中——这是意大利亚得里亚海海岸一座现代化的城市。 |
| Lawrence says the L'Aquila he knew no longer exists. |
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Lawrence说，他所了解的拉奎拉已经不复存在了。 |
| "There's nothing. There's one bar open. There's no place to just hang out. |
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“现在什么都没有了。只有一座酒吧开放。没有地方可以闲逛，没有办法居住在这个地方。 |
| There's no way to live in this city," Lawrence said. "There was a university in town.There were thousands of people animating the downtown, keeping it alive. And that's just not there anymore." |
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过去，这里有一所大学，千百万人使这个城镇非常具有生气。而现在，什么都没有。” |
| Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says it will take years to rebuild L'Aquila delicate, urban and artistic heritage. |
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意大利总理西尔维奥·贝鲁斯科尼表示，重建拉奎拉城区，恢复其艺术遗产需要几年的时间。 |
| But he says, residents must be confident because the reconstruction is underway. |
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但是他表示，居民必须有信心，因为重建工作正在进行。 |
| The mayor of L'Aquila, Massimo Cialente, sums up feelings of most people who experienced the quake. |
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拉奎拉市长Massimo Cialente 对经历了这次地震的大多数人的感觉进行了总结。 |
| "Don't forget us," he says. "That's what people here want – not to be forgotten because this is just the beginning." |
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“不要忘记我们。”他说。“这就是这里的人们希望的——不要被忘却，因为这仅仅是开始。” |
