To quell the fear my brother had instilled in me, my mom rushed out and bought me “Barbie: Super Model”.

妈妈看到我被吓成那样子，立刻冲出去买了一个“芭比：超级模特”给我压惊。

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Yet there is at least reason to fear, on the evidence of Helmand alone, that foreign troops are now creating more conflict than they can possibly quell.

但是害拍不是没有理由的。单单看看Helmond的事实吧，联军现在在那里制造的冲突比他们平息的还要多。

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Macquarie has tried to quell the fear that it would charge the LSE's users more than they pay now.

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In a surprise move, President Obama sought to quell the fear still swirling around the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Many officials fear that despite government attempts to build bigger bailout funds, only the ECB would have the firepower to quell a full-blown financial panic in southern Europe.

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