A World War II bombing caused the evacuation of 50,000 people. It doesn't sound like much of a current event, except when you hear that the evacuation was made on Sunday.
一枚二战炸弹致5万名居民被疏散。听起来这并不像是当前会发生的事件，不过这起疏散行动就发生在周日。
In northwestern Germany, about 10 percent of the residents of Hanover had to leave their homes earlier this week. Construction crews recently found three unexploded bombs in the city. The BBC says they were dropped by the British during World War II. One of them was especially hard to defuse because it was so damaged. Officials were able to do it and no one was hurt.
本周早些时候，德国西北部地区汉诺威市约10%的居民不得不离开家园。最近，建筑工人在该市发现了三枚未引爆的炸弹。据BBC报道，这些炸弹是英军在二战期间投掷的。其中一枚炸弹因毁损严重极难撤除。不过最终官方成功将其拆除，并未造成伤亡。
Evacuations like this have had to be made before in Hanover. The city was hit by 261,000 allied bombs on one night alone in 1943. Evacuations and occasionally deadly blast have been caused by bombs throughout Germany in the decades since the war.
像这样的疏散行动在汉诺威市曾进行过。1943年，盟军在一夜之间向该市投放了26.1万枚炸弹。二战结束以后的这几十年来，德国时有疏散行动，而且炸弹偶尔还会引发致命爆炸。

A World War II bombing caused the evacuation of 50,000 people. It doesn't sound like much of a current event, except when you hear that the evacuation was made on Sunday.
In northwestern Germany, about 10 percent of the residents of Hanover had to leave their homes earlier this week. Construction crews recently found three unexploded bombs in the city. The BBC says they were dropped by the British during World War II. One of them was especially hard to defuse because it was so damaged. Officials were able to do it and no one was hurt.
Evacuations like this have had to be made before in Hanover. The city was hit by 261,000 allied bombs on one night alone in 1943. Evacuations and occasionally deadly blast have been caused by bombs throughout Germany in the decades since the war.