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As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

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汽车引擎燃烧不顺畅，从排气管排出的异常爆响，可以叫做backfire。 另外，发生森林大火，火势失去控制，有一种颇特殊的灭火方法也叫backfire。方法是在

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Efforts to ease medical costs take effect

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