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86.What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States?
86.2001年9月11日美国发生了什么重大事件？
Answer: Terrorists attacked the United States.
答案：恐怖分子袭击了美国
Explanation: Terrorism (or violence that is used against people to try to scare them) used to be something that Americans only read about in the newspaper.
解释：恐怖主义（或用来对付人们的暴力，企图恐吓他们）曾是美国人只会在报纸上看到的东西。
They knew that terrorists were dangerous (or could hurt them), but it didn't really happen in the United States so it didn't affect their daily life.
他们知道恐怖分子很危险（或会伤害到他们），但它没有真的在美国出现，因此它没有影响到他们的日常生活。
But on September 11, 2001, all of that changed and terrorism hit home, starting to affect Americans in their own country.
但在2001年9月11日，这一现状发生了改变，恐怖主义在美国出现了，开始影响到了美国人。
On that day, men affiliated with (or connected to) a terrorist group called al-Qaeda hijacked four planes, taking control of them and changing their route (or the place that they were going to fly to).
在那天，隶属于（或与之有关系）名为基地组织的恐怖分子组织成员劫持了四架飞机，控制并改变了它们的航线（或它们要飞往的地方）。
Two of the planes crashed into (or hit) the World Trade Center Towers, two very tall buildings, in New York City.
其中两架飞机撞上了世界贸易中心大厦，纽约的两座摩天大楼。
The planes exploded (or blew into many pieces) and caused a lot of damage (or broken and ruined things) in the buildings.
飞机发生爆炸（或炸成许多碎片）并使大厦严重受创（或损毁了的东西）。
Many people died on impact (or at the moment when the planes hit the buildings), but many more people died when the buildings collapsed (or fell down) a little while later.
许多人被撞死了（或飞机撞上建筑物的时候），但更多的人是在大楼倒塌（或坍塌）后不久死去的。
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