That is because some patients may be terrified to learn they are predisposed to develop cancer.

这是因为一些患者可能在获悉易患癌症后手足无措。

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But each generation grows up into respectable parents, ready to be terrified to death of the next one.

但是每一代都成长为受人尊敬的父母，都会由于下一代的死亡而胆战心惊。

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If you were under pressure to be perfect, you are terrified of failing in the most public of ways.

如果你处在追求完美的压力下，你会害怕在最公开的情况下失败。

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One visitor,a former Navy man,once said: "The only good thing about my fighting in the war was that I was too young to be terrified."

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Politicians would be terrified to do it -- there are an estimated 45 million smokers in the United States, and no one is going to risk alienating them by completely cutting them off from cigarettes.

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"Flirting allows you to meet someone you would ordinarily be too timid or terrified to approach, " she says.

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Greed versus fear, this is the investor mentality, investors either want to be in the next hot thing or they are terrified that they are not going to be in the next hot thing and investing, getting people to invest is a very emotional process.

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