The consequences are not trivial: he has destroyed the economy of a onceprosperous country and caused a mass exodus of its people.
引发的结果也是令人惊诧的:他破坏了曾经繁荣一时的经济而且迫使国民大量外出。
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The showcase of abandoned houses, presented to the Cruzine readers today, will merge us into the past of onceprosperous and inhabited buildings.
今天呈现给Cruzine读者的废弃房屋的展示将带我们回味那些曾经风光一时、人丁兴旺的建筑。
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More than 400, 000 Ivorians have fled their homes, three-quarters of them from Abidjan, the country’s once shinily prosperous commercial capital, most of them in the past few weeks.