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The faltering firefighter

机译：步履蹒跚的消防员

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The biggest physical explosion ever recorded took place in 1815, when a volcano in the part of the world that is now called Indonesia blew its top. The eruption of Mount Tambora, on the island of Sumbawa, killed 92,000 people and released 100 times more energy than a nuclear bomb. But perhaps because its name is less thunderous than that of Krakatau, at the other end of Java, which blew up later, most of the world's people have never heard of the earlier bang. A century and a half later, another explosion, this one political, produced even more carnage but was just as quickly forgotten by the rest of the world. In late 1965, after what the Indonesian army called an attempted communist coup, soldiers and armed vigilantes unleashed a wave of terror. About half a million people were killed, most of them in central and eastern Java. So began the "New Order" of Indonesia's second president: a general named Suharto. America's CIA described the bloodshed as "one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century". Yet not long afterwards the world's fourth-biggest country—like its long inactive volcano—had largely faded from the world's attention.
机译：有史以来最大的物理爆炸发生在1815年，当时世界上现在被称为印度尼西亚的一座火山炸毁了它的顶部。松巴瓦岛上的坦博拉火山喷发，炸死92,000人，释放的能量是核弹的100倍。但是，也许是因为它的名字不如Java另一端的Krakatau响亮，后者后来才炸毁，所以世界上大多数人从未听说过更早的爆炸。一个半世纪以后，又一次政治爆炸，造成了更大的屠杀，但很快被世界其他地方所忘记。 1965年下半年，在印度尼西亚军队称其为未遂共产主义政变之后，士兵和武装警卫人员发动了一波恐怖袭击。大约有一百万人被杀，其中大部分在爪哇中部和东部。印度尼西亚第二任总统的“新秩序”开始了：一位名叫苏哈托的将军。美国中央情报局将这场流血事件描述为“ 20世纪最严重的大规模谋杀案之一”。然而不久之后，这个世界第四大国家（如其长期不活跃的火山）在很大程度上已从世界范围内消失。

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