Aberfan taught us a lot. Mostly, of course, that those in power(当权者) cannot be trusted. Correction: must not be trusted.
阿伯凡教会了我们很多。当然，最主要的是：当权者不可信。更正：绝不可信。
Too sweeping(一概而论的)?
太一概而论了吗？
I might have thought so until 60 years ago this week when I stood alongside mothers weeping and praying as they watched their husbands digging for the bodies of their children who lay crushed beneath the ruins of their little school.(我本来可能也会这么想，直到60年前的这个星期，我站在哭泣祈祷的母亲们身旁，看着她们的丈夫挖掘被压在小学校废墟下的孩子的尸体。)
我本来可能也会这么想，直到60年前的这个星期，我站在哭泣祈祷的母亲们身旁，看着她们的丈夫挖掘被压在小学校废墟下的孩子的尸体。