Last summer, when the prime minister handled a series of minor crises reasonably competently, he seemed able to turn floodwaters into wine.
去年夏天当首相相当胜任地解决一系列小型危机时,他看起来可以点石成金,化腐朽为神奇。
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Much of the damage seems to have been caused by the tsunami wrecking the diesel generators-a single failure that resulted in a series of others, and was, in turn, compounded by them.