'I'm afraid not,' he said regretfully.

他遗憾地说：“恐怕不行。”

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The man could see that she was afraid, so he said in his friendliest voice, "I'm here to help you, madam."

这个男人看出她很害怕，所以他用他最友好的声音说：“我是来帮助你的，夫人。”

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"I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see."

“我恐怕说不清，先生。”爱丽丝说，“因为我不是我自己，您知道的。”

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Truman remembered years later. In an oral history recorded with the writer Merle Miller, Truman said: "I was afraid.

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It makes no sense to think a computer could have said, I'm afraid.

计算机会说,我害怕,这简直说不通

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But he was not afraid of it. He said: "Our separation from the old Union is complete.

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"The mood is a little bit afraid, " said Marco Volponi of Italy's Civil Protection agency.

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"If you want him, you've got to pay it I'm afraid, " said Hay, who managed Celtic in the 1980s.

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"We hear speakers warning us about the cyclone, but we are still afraid, " said Ba Kyi, a Muslim community worker at a clinic in Sittwe.

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