英语翻译As disasters go,this one was terrible,but not unique,cer

英语翻译
As disasters go,this one was terrible,but not unique,certainly not among the worst U.S.air crashes on record.There was the unusual element of the bridge,of course and the fact that the plane hit it at a moment of high traffic.Then,too,there was the location of the event.Washington,the city of form and rules,turned chaotic by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal.The jets from Washington National Airport that normally fly around the presidential monuments like hungry gulls are,for the moment,represented by the one that fell.And there was the aesthetic clash as well — blue-and-green Air Florida,the name of a flying garden,sunk down among gray chunks of ice in a black river.All that was worth noticing,to be sure.Still,there was nothing very special in any of it,except death,which,while always special,does not necessarily bring millions to tears or to attention.Why,then,the shock here?
这是Roger Rosenblatt的文章,题目是The Man in the Water,请教高手这个段落的翻译..